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General Discussions => Testing. 1, 2, 3... => Topic started by: Mysterious Benefactor on May 20, 2005, 11:44:25 PM

Title: Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on May 20, 2005, 11:44:25 PM

The bogus e-mail contains an attachment that purports to be a cumulative Windows patch for May 2005. It's actually an executable file for a well-known virus.

Read more here (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1817915,00.asp?kc=ewnws052005dtx1k0000599).

Title: Re: Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack
Post by: Patti Feinberg on May 22, 2005, 02:42:10 AM

quoting from the article:

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infect every PE and SCR file on every drive and network share.

Qu'est ce c'est?

Hmm...I don't believe the writer of the article was a big Explorer fan ::)

Thanks MB,

Patti

Title: Re: Fake Microsoft Patch Triggers Virus Attack
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on May 22, 2005, 03:06:45 AM

Windows files that end with .scr are screensavers. And PE files consist of the ones ending with .exe and .dll, ActiveX controls, and several other Windows executable formats.