Recent E-mail telling me to to open "patch.exe"

I received an e-mail that looks like it came
from "Microsoft". It says to open "patch.exe". I did
not do this because the explanation was miss-worded and
not in very good english.
Is this legit?

Sjonia
Tue Aug 24 11:15:04 CDT 2004

Microsoft does not send attachments via e-mail. The e-mail you received
spoofed the Microsoft domain and the attachment is a virus.

The only way to receive legitimate notices about security updates is to
subscribe at http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/alerts.mspx. All
notices we send can be verified at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security
and are posted online before the e-mail is sent. They are all text based
and contain link only and online bulletin.

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"Denny" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:c51901c489ee$7e0735c0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I received an e-mail that looks like it came
> from "Microsoft". It says to open "patch.exe". I did
> not do this because the explanation was miss-worded and
> not in very good english.
> Is this legit?

anonymous
Tue Aug 24 15:30:33 CDT 2004


>-----Original Message-----
>I received an e-mail that looks like it came
>from "Microsoft". It says to open "patch.exe". I did
>not do this because the explanation was miss-worded and
>not in very good english.
>Is this legit?
>.
>Microsoft never emails any patches or updates.