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comnet-www: (Hoax/SPAM/malware?) Windows Update Notification

From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: Free/Open-Source Software Community Networking/Computing <comnet-www_-at-_flora.org>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 09:57:47 -0400 (EDT)

  The connections between SPAM and Malware are getting interesting.  The 
site is not available at the moment, but I suspect that it started out as 
a site that installed a virus or other such thing.

  A whois shows the domain is for sale...  Could this just be marketing?
http://www.openconcept.ca/whois.php?q=WINDOWSUPDATENOW.COM

---
 Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> 
 Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or
 electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than 
 politicians should be bought.  -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/

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Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 03:18:13 +0900
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WINDOWS SECURITY WARNING!!
 
A VIRUS HAS BEEN DETECTED ON YOUR COMPUTER. IN ORDER FOR YOUR COMPUTER NOT TO CRASH YOU WILL NEED TO GO TO:
 
HTTP://WWW.WINDOWSUPDATENOW.COM
 
AND IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE YOUR COMPUTERS SECURITY PATCHES.
 
SIMPLY TYPE IN HTTP://WWW.WINDOWSUPDATENOW.COM INTO YOUR BROWSER. OTHERWISE YOU WILL KEEP RECEIVING THIS SECURITY ALERT EMAIL EVERY DAY.

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