Is this legit? I suspect not. I am not inc. the attachment.
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I received the following email today:

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this is the latest version of security update, the
"July 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates
all known security vulnerabilities affecting Internet=20
Explorer,
Outlook and Outlook Express as well as five newly
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Re: Microsoft is sending updates unsolicited? by Lanwench

Lanwench
Wed Jul 23 06:08:34 CDT 2003

Not if he/she didn't execute the attachment. ;-)

sheri wrote:
> i think you may have a Gibe virus. see:
>
> 1. my posting in this newsgroup, 7/21/03 1:43p
> 2.
> http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w3
> 2.gibe.b@mm.html