Yes, that's the sad thing about it - they will see MS in the message and figure it's really from MS.
Tim Wunder wrote: > The sad thing is... there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of > PC users that will run the thing :-( > > On Sunday 24 August 2003 4:50 pm, someone claiming to be Brett I. Holcomb > wrote: >> If you are crazy enough to run it <G> please let us know what it infects >> you with <G>. >> >> Ian Stephen wrote: >> > Look what I just got, with an attachment "patch.exe" >> > >> > Microsoft must like me! >> > >> > (Now if I can only figure out how to get IE to run with Wine maybe I >> > can use this patch ;-) >> > >> > <pasted email> >> > >> > >> > From: >> > Microsoft >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > To: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Subject: >> > Use this >> > patch >> > immediately >> > ! >> > Date: >> > Sun, 24 Aug >> > 2003 >> > 11:30:35 >> > -0600 (MDT) >> > >> > Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now! >> > There are dangerous virus in the Internet now! >> > More than 500.000 already infected! >> > >> > </pasted email> > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
