Graham

Ok, here's a wierd one...

I got another one of those "This is a Micro$oft Update" e-mails seemingly trying to trick me into running the .exe attachment and infect my system.

Ho hum, thinks I, and I'm about to delete it when I suddenly realise that the message *doesn't* have a Norton AV warning of deletion in place of the attachment.

So I think "hello, that's odd" and get NAV to scan the attachment. To which it replies "it's clean".

Now this is strange, because it sure as hell *looks* like it's suspicious.

So I save the file, quarantine it, and send it off to Symantec for checking and get the reply back saying "this has been checked and it's the same as the official version of the install9.exe program"

This strikes me as totally bizarre. Someone sends out something that *looks* like a virus type message, but it's got perfectly legitimate content (and no other attachments), so what on *Earth* is the point?

Is someone *trying* to do me a favour by helping me to install updates on my system? (Not that I'd trust it anyway!) Is it a virus that's just really well concealed? (It doesn't seem to be)

Anyone got any ideas on this?