MS Newsletter contains malicious code?

[David]

I received the MS Office Update Newsletter in my email
today. Outlook 2000 locked up every time it tried to
download the message, and approximately three minutes
later my entire system locked up. I was finally able to
access the newsletter by using a web-based email client.
When viewing the message with the web-based client, my
system would go into an endless disc access loop. I have
now quarantined the message on a web storage server.

I have no viruses on my system, and no other problems. It
is absolutely and only this email message from MS that is
causing this.

What is contained in this message that is causing it to
disable computer systems? And can you please prevent it
from happening in the future?

[George Hester]

I believe you are talking about the Microsoft Office Newsletter that was sent out yesterday 2/5/03. Yes American style. It emphasized Outlook 2002?

There was nothing in it that did anything here. Windows 2000 SP3 Internet Explorer 6. But I did not get it in Outlook 2002. I got it in Outlook Express 6.0; came to my hotmail account. If you want the source I can put it together for you. But likely it is a gif that was not available at the time you accessed the email. Or your security is prohibiting some access and hence the troubles.

"And can you please prevent it from happening in the future?"

Jeeze I don't know if "we" can do that.

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George Hester
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