Sunday, November 30, 2003
Microsoft distributing patches by e-mail, or scarily realistic worm distribution?
I've gotten several e-mails in the past three days that look like the image below (which is a screenshot taken from Mozilla Thunderbird):
Either Microsoft is now taking the extraordinarily stupid step of e-mailing patches to users now (which I doubt because I don't think they're that stupid), or there is an extremely realistic e-mail attachment worm going around right now. I wonder how many people this will fool? I wonder how long it will be before attachment abuse and spam make e-mail completely unsuitable for any useful purpose?
I've gotten several e-mails in the past three days that look like the image below (which is a screenshot taken from Mozilla Thunderbird):
Either Microsoft is now taking the extraordinarily stupid step of e-mailing patches to users now (which I doubt because I don't think they're that stupid), or there is an extremely realistic e-mail attachment worm going around right now. I wonder how many people this will fool? I wonder how long it will be before attachment abuse and spam make e-mail completely unsuitable for any useful purpose?
