Microsoft releases virus infected MS Word documents on their own web site! If you have visited http://www.microsoft.com/uk/business_technology/dns/ecommerce/financial/case.htm recently to find out more about MS Exchange and E-commerce, then you should scan for the W97M/Marker.C virus on your network. This has happened numerous times!
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 13:13:34 +0100
>From: T Bruce Tober <octobersdad@reporters.net>
Subject: You'd think they'd know better...
...or maybe not. I mean, it is Microcrap we're talking about here, viz this
article from Woody's (Woody's Office Watch), and if there's anyone more
pro-Microsoft it's only Bill G himself,:
(Read the complete story http://www.wopr.com/ )
TRUST NO ONE [...]
Microsoft has in the past released virus infected documents on their web
site and by other means. WOW has had to publish warnings several times.
Sadly it's happened again. Anyone visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/business_technology/dns/ecommerce/financial/case.htm
to find out more about MS Exchange and E-commerce got more than they
bargained for when they downloaded any of the case study documents. All
were infected with W97M/Marker.C virus! Apparently no-one at Microsoft
checked the documents before making them publicly available [...]
Bruce Tober, <octobersdad@reporters.net>, <http://www.crecon.demon.co.uk>
Birmingham, UK, EU +44-121-242-3832 soon at <http://www.star-dot-star.co.uk>
RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Weds 28 April 1999 Volume 20 : Issue 34