How many clueless people are going to respond to this email and install the trojan attached?

Dear Sir/Madam,

We kindly ask you to install this update to your PC as soon as possible.

In the libraries of OS Windows® critical errors have been found. This errors lead to destruction of the system files from your computer without an opportunity on restoration. The given service-pack fixes libraries and does not allow various Trojan modules to penetrate into your computer.

Yours Faithfully,
Microsoft INC

MsWindowsUpdate.rar: 00000001,00000001,00000000,00000000

You'd think they could find someone who knew a little better English to at least check their grammar.

Yea that is a little obvious but will not doubt trick a lot of people.

There is another virus that gets onto a computer then sets up its own smtp engine. Borrows the host computers address books and internet cache for email addresses then randomly generates messages and send them out using email spoofing. It is one that has a rather sophisticated method of putting together messages and one version of the message says that your computer has been sending out a large number of spam and to use the attached file to check your computer for viruses. In a another version there is a message that is blank within the subject it just says, 'Hi :))'. We get far more calls on the blank message that just says Hi in the subject then we do on the long drawn out messages.

I actually got suckered by a email that spoofed a friend of mines email address. All it said in the body was 'Hope to here back to you soon about this' and the attachment name was called Application_Employment.zip. So, I thought he was sending me a job application and well he has a good job and that kinda peaked my interest. Also, my SBC Yahoo web email said it was not infected. Turns out it was infected with the w32/pate.b virus. Wasn't to bad, just had to scan out about 200 .exe files from safe mode.

Its written enough like "Techno Speak", that the average person just installs it and tries NOT to understand it.

How many clueless people are going to respond to this email and install the trojan attached?

Dunno, but I wouldn't like to be wubya's system admin :-)

Ian, they wouldn't be able to type "mswindowsupdate.rar" at the command line, and I don't think "msindowsupdate.rar" would work.

('Cause the "W" keys are still missing, see... Oh, just forget I said anything.)