Latest Supposed MS Security Patch Spam

[bleachlpb]

Since last Thursday (9/18) I have been receiving about 30-40 emails a day about either a supposed "critical patch" or a message describing that some messages was undeliverable to somewhere.

The attachments are removed at our firewall, and undoubtedly contain a virus and not an MS patch as the message states - MS never sends out patches in email.

But these messages are filling my inbox - I've never had a problem like this in the past. Is anyone else having this problem? I may have to break down and buy some spam filtering software - but this might be hard to sell to management, because at this point, I seem to be the only affected user.

 

[MattWray]

I have been seeing it also. It is not just Spam, it does contain a worm, Worm.Automat.AHB. We use Norton Security Gateway to block Spam, but I've seen about the same number of these getting blocked as you say you are receiving.
Anyways, it's not just you...

Thanks,

Matt Wray
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA

http://www.sss-steel.com