security email - hoax or not??

[marion]

I recieved the following this morning - can anyone help

Dear Microsoft Windows users,

Due to a massive infection caused by a Worm that quickly expands using a
vulnerability in:
Microsoft Windows (All versions), we are implementing a security patch.
which can be installed following the download button appear below :

--
Marion

 

[Maurice N ~ MVP]

Hello Marion,

This has signs of a malware carrier. MS only sends bulletins and /only/ if you had pro-actively asked to get a bulletin.
If the email has an attachment, then this is yet another sign of a malware. You'll never see or have a "download button" with legitimate MS bulletins.

I hope you permanently deleted this email, and more so, have kept your Windows up-to-date with critical & security updates have current AV & anti-malware and that you do regular scans for malware.
--
Maurice N
MS-MVP (Windows Client) , Aumha.net VSOP , DTS-L
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"marion" <marion@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EFFE276D-A8F5-4B85-914E-04FE5BE872A8@microsoft.com...
>I recieved the following this morning - can anyone help
>
> Dear Microsoft Windows users,
>
> Due to a massive infection caused by a Worm that quickly expands using a
> vulnerability in:
> Microsoft Windows (All versions), we are implementing a security patch.
> which can be installed following the download button appear below :
>
> --
> Marion

 

[siljaline]

"marion" wrote:
>I recieved the following this morning - can anyone help
>
> Dear Microsoft Windows users,
>
> Due to a massive infection caused by a Worm that quickly expands using a
> vulnerability in:
> Microsoft Windows (All versions), we are implementing a security patch.
> which can be installed following the download button appear below :

<quote>
Recognize and avoid fraudulent e-mail to Microsoft customers:
==============================================
If you receive an e-mail message that claims to be distributing
a Microsoft security update, it is a hoax that may contain
malware or pointers to malicious Web sites. Microsoft does
not distribute security updates via e-mail.
</quote>

Silj

--
siljaline
http://aumha.org/vsop.php

 

[PA Bear]

How to tell if a Microsoft Security message is genuine
http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/authenticate_mail.mspx
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear), working offline
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.org/

marion wrote:
> I recieved the following this morning - can anyone help
>
> Dear Microsoft Windows users,
>
> Due to a massive infection caused by a Worm that quickly expands using a
> vulnerability in:
> Microsoft Windows (All versions), we are implementing a security patch.
> which can be installed following the download button appear below :

 

[Alun Jones]

"marion" <marion@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EFFE276D-A8F5-4B85-914E-04FE5BE872A8@microsoft.com...
>I recieved the following this morning - can anyone help
>
> Dear Microsoft Windows users,

For email these days, assume that every message you receive is a hoax,
unless proof is presented otherwise.

Don't trust 'proof' that comes in by email, either - by 'proof', I mean that
you open up Windows Update in your browser, and see if there are any new
patches. That's how security fixes will come to you, not by email.

The most that will come to you by email is a patch _announcement_, and that
will only come if you have specifically requested that it be sent, by
subscribing to the security bulletins.

Just ignore these emails - and tell your friends to do the same.

Alun.
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