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Legislative Update 10-08-02
Another Computer Virus Warning

Dear Neighbors:

I was alerted by one of our neighbors about an e-mail virus that is going around. After confirming the warning with Symantec, a computer security firm, I thought it best to warn you about this virus.

A virus posing as a security patch from Microsoft is circulating on the Internet. The virus is being distributed in a hoax e-mail that advertises a patch for a series of vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser and Outlook software. The authentic patch for those flaws was actually released in February. Microsoft said that it has not updated the patch and that the e-mail is in fact fraudulent.

The e-mail uses a Microsoft address and has the subject line "Internet Security Update." It tells users to immediately run an attached ".exe" (executable) file with the name "q216309.exe", which a Microsoft spokeswoman confirmed is a virus.

Microsoft is urging users to not run the attachment and referred users to information on its Web site about other hoax e-mail. If you get this message, please DO NOT RUN the executable file "q216309.exe"!!!

Additional information, including how to remove this virus if your computer has been infected, can be obtained at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.gibe@mm.html.

I hope at least some of this information is useful to you. As always, if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please get in touch with me.

Thanks,

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