"Last Network Pack"

I've just received an Email purporting to come from Microsoft entitled "last network pack" with a 106kB exe file attached. The mail is very authentic looking with workable links to MS. Obviously, I deleted it, but the curious thing is, I d'loaded a Norton update whilst the mail was still in my inbox and it still wasn't picked up. I looked at Microsoft to see about contacting them and found it was not possible. I did a thorough search on Google for "last network pack" and other terms appertaining to the mail and didn't find anything. This tells me that it is a hoax and it is new. I have a digital image of the mail, but no idea of where to send an alert.


Any ideas??

 

I would forget about it. MS does not send email notifications. A reason Norton didn't do anything about it was that the email was already received when you did the update, therefore it was "already scanned ".

 

from CNet News this week-
A new e-mail worm spread quickly, taking advantage of an Internet Explorer vulnerability that was first disclosed two years ago. The bug, which has been alternately dubbed Swen and Gibe.F, appears to exploit a flaw that Microsoft first disclosed in a March 2001 security bulletin.

The worm masquerades as an e-mail that purports to be a security update from Microsoft and is programmed to send an official-looking e-mail that says it contains a "cumulative patch" for several Internet Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express vulnerabilities. The virus turns on file sharing--if it is not already turned on--and creates a shared directory with multiple copies of itself under various file names.

As the new worm was spreading, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer warned that recent security vulnerabilities represent a "new and growing challenge to innovation." He conceded that his company is under attack from "thieves, con artists, terrorists and hackers." In response, the software giant plans to develop new means for thwarting such attackers and aims to shut down the invasions before they wreak the havoc seen with recent viruses such as MSBlast.

 

We'll I'm up to five for the last 2 days. Three intercepted by Norton, the other two I deleted at ISP server. All of mine have been 143kb or 156kb. All but one had Microsoft somewhere in the subject/sender. The one that did not is below...
Sender: "Inet Email Delivery Service" <mailerdaemon@puremail.com>
Recipient:my email address WAS positioned here
Subject: Failure Announcement