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Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack

Posted by Zonk on from the watch-what-you-click dept.

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.'"

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  1. The point is... by NineNine · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OK, we get it. Don't run random attachments that people you don't know email to you. Why is this news? I get probably a hundred emails with viral attachments daily. Is Slashdot somehow suggesting that this is Microsoft's fault in some bizarre, convoluted way?

  2. Nice confirmation of the fact... by dos_dude · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ... that the best software in the world couldn't protect you from the stupidity of the guy in front of the monitor. Makes you wonder who is worse: Microsoft or their users?