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E-mail from Microsoft
I just got an e-mail that says it's from security @
microsoft. It says there is a virus that has already affected more than 500,000 computers and wants me to download a patch. Did anyone else get an e-mail like this? |
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E-mail from Microsoft
It's a VIRUS - do NOT use the attachment!!!
millions of these go out every day - if it's the first you've seen, it won't be the last. Microsoft NEVER send out unsolicited emails - and NEVER send out patches by -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's or http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp "Sam" wrote in message ... I just got an e-mail that says it's from security @ microsoft. It says there is a virus that has already affected more than 500,000 computers and wants me to download a patch. Did anyone else get an e-mail like this? |
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E-mail from Microsoft
Hi Sam,
There have been alot of these phoney bologna emails "supposedly" coming from Microsoft. In OE6 I would check the email content (right click, then properties, message source) and sometimes it tells me that there were viruses attached, and were discarded before it got to my inbox. These emails mainly try to lure you in with some kind of security update..It's a jungle out there and we have to have the arsenal to defend and conquer... If you want an update, go straight to the source, "Windows Update" P.S. I just recently recieved emails "supposedly from the Postmaster" stating my mail was undeliverable, when I sent no such mail. M aybe these people should be put on a one way plane ride to Iraq. |
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E-mail from Microsoft
I used to get these everyday when the swen virus was doing the rounds
sometimes around 100 a day.Lately since me isp changed to wanadoo they now filter all that out.Regards keanu "fcc0610" wrote in message ... Hi Sam, There have been alot of these phoney bologna emails "supposedly" coming from Microsoft. In OE6 I would check the email content (right click, then properties, message source) and sometimes it tells me that there were viruses attached, and were discarded before it got to my inbox. These emails mainly try to lure you in with some kind of security update..It's a jungle out there and we have to have the arsenal to defend and conquer... If you want an update, go straight to the source, "Windows Update" P.S. I just recently recieved emails "supposedly from the Postmaster" stating my mail was undeliverable, when I sent no such mail. M aybe these people should be put on a one way plane ride to Iraq. |
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