Many of our customers are receiving bogus E-Mails that appear to be from Microsoft, instructing them to install or download a patch.  Below is an example of one of these e-mails.  Please beware of such e-mails as they contain an attachment with a virus that will infect your machine if opened.  Also note that Microsoft never sends out patches through e-mail.  All patches and updates are deployed through “Microsoft Update” at the following site: http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate  Please forward this e-mail to all employees in your organization.  In addition, similar bogus e-mails are circulating from: Wachovia, Bank of America, CNN, and MSNBC.

Thank you,

Capitol Computer
9700-G Martin Luther King Jr. Highway
Lanham, MD 20706
Phone: 301.731.4585
Fax: 301.731.4695
e-mail: info@ccex.com

Alert by: Jeffrey Pena (Senior Network Engineer)

-----Original Message-----
From: Microsoft Corp. [mailto:securityassurance@microsoft.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:39 AM
Subject: Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows

Dear Microsoft Customer,

Please notice that Microsoft company has recently issued a Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows. The update applies to the following OS versions: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Millenium, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista.

Please notice, that present update applies to high-priority updates category. In order to help protect your computer against security threats and performance problems, we strongly recommend you to install this update.

Since public distribution of this Update through the official website http://www.microsoft.com would have result in efficient creation of a malicious software, we made a decision to issue an experimental private version of an update for all Microsoft Windows OS users.

As your computer is set to receive notifications when new updates are available, you have received this notice.

In order to start the update, please follow the step-by-step instruction:
1. Run the file, that you have received along with this message.
2. Carefully follow all the instructions you see on the screen.

If nothing changes after you have run the file, probably in the settings of your OS you have an indication to run all the updates at a background routine. In that case, at this point the upgrade of your OS will be finished.

We apologize for any inconvenience this back order may be causing you.

Thank you,

Steve Lipner
Director of Security Assurance
Microsoft Corp. 

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