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Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack
boarder8925 writes "eWeek reports: 'Like day follows night, a bogus cumulative update with a malicious attachment has followed Microsoft's patch day. In what has become a monthly staple, virus writers are taking advantage of the heightened public interest around Microsoft's patching cycle to trick users into executing a malicious attachment. The latest social engineering trick arrives via e-mail with an attachment that purports to be a 'cumulative patch' for May 2005.'"
... at least that's what they tell us. But we all know that it actually was a cummulatice update, but they screwed it up.
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Microsoft try and help users by providing easily accessible patches and they get blasted for it. I installed this patch yesterday and my machine works just fin^&*%^$%#%&^ [NO CARRIER SIGNAL]
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Cumulative patch? Now, that's a new term. Microsoft's ways are forcing us to get used to new terms in the computer field. Since this business of patching has become "business as usual" for M$, how about a new acronym for the procedure? I suggest cumpatch to stand for "cumulative patch".
with patches like this....a milyID=905b4d10-9cde-4d32-b576-c942d1375ceb&displa ylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F
it is very hard to tell which ones are for real....
I for one, welcome our new hot grits... PROFIT!
people gullible to believe Microsoft's "Get the Facts" campaign are just as gullible to download fake patches.
w00t.