New fake MS update

Haven’t seen any of this new Trojan posing as Windows XP update around our email server yet. The last faxe MS update came through here without incident as all of my users who thought it might be an actual update forwarded it to me to see if they needed to apply the update. (Our ISP had actually stripped the attachments anyway, so all was right in the world on two fronts.) Has anyone else seen this one?

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