If you receive an email from Microsoft with an attached email.....it is NOT from Microsoft.
THIS IS NOT FROM MICROSOFT! We DO NOT send security fixes by email and we donot have an MS Internet Security Center. For more information, please see:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32gibea.html
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Microsoft Customer,
this is the latest version of security update, the
"2 Mar 2002 Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer and MS Outlook/Express as well as six new vulnerabilities, and is discussed in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-005. Install now to protect your computer from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an attacker to run code on your computer.
Description of several well-know vulnerabilities:
- "Incorrect MIME Header Can Cause IE to Execute E-mail Attachment"
vulnerability. If a malicious user sends an affected HTML e-mail or
hosts an affected e-mail on a Web site, and a user opens the e-mail or visits
the Web site, Internet Explorer automatically runs the executable on the
user's computer.
- A vulnerability that could allow an unauthorized user to learn the
location of cached content on your computer. This could enable the
unauthorized user to launch compiled HTML Help (.chm) files that
contain shortcuts to executables, thereby enabling the unauthorized user to
run the executables on your computer.
- A new variant of the "Frame Domain Verification" vulnerability could
enable a malicious Web site operator to open two browser windows, one
in the Web site's domain and the other on your local file system, and to pass
information from your computer to the Web site.
- CLSID extension vulnerability. Attachments which end with a CLSID
file extension do not show the actual full extension of the file when saved
and viewed with Windows Explorer. This allows dangerous file types to
look as though they are simple, harmless files - such as JPG or WAV files - that do not need to be blocked.
System requirements:
Versions of Windows no earlier than Windows 95.
This update applies to:
Versions of Internet Explorer no earlier than 4.01
Versions of MS Outlook no earlier than 8.00
Versions of MS Outlook Express no earlier than 4.01
How to install
Run attached file q216309.exe
How to use
You don't need to do anything after installing this item.
For more information about these issues, read Microsoft Security
Bulletin MS02-005, or visit link below.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/critical/default.asp
If you have some questions about this article contact us at
rdquest12@m...
Thank you for using Microsoft products.
With friendly greetings,
MS Internet Security Center.
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Microsoft is registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows
and Outlook are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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This email's attachment will infect your computer with the GIBE virus that leaves behind a back door.
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