My Wife works at the PD & she sent this

-----Original Message-----
From: Willett, G
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 07:46
To: Police Dept Personnel Email; Fire Dept Personnel; Town Hall
Personnel
Subject: Beware of Fake Microsoft Outlook Update E-mail


Thursday June 28, 2007
Beware of Fake Microsoft Outlook Update E-mail
Categories: Software Patches, Top Threat, Viruses
Tags: Microsoft, Outlook, Trojan Horse, virus

Security vendor Sophos is reporting that a bogus Microsoft e-mail is
spreading that reports a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook.

The e-mail includes a link to a "patch" the user can download to fix the
problem. The alleged patch is, of course, a Trojan horse program which
Sophos detects as Mal/Behav-112.

This is a very old scam; the first fake Microsoft patches containing
malware came out many years ago, probably at least five years ago. We
hope you know this already, but of course Microsoft does mail out links
like this. As a general rule, don't follow links like this out of
e-mails; you should only apply patches through protected facilities like
Windows Update and Microsoft Update. Also make sure to run anti-malware
protection and keep it up to date.