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I recently received an e-mail from microsoft recommending
a security patch download. The instructions were to click
yes on the attachment, only I cannot open or see any
attachment.

I receive regular windows updates automatically do you
think that will have been included?

Many Thanks for your help

Ian

S
Sat Feb 28 06:26:11 CST 2004

This e-mail is scam.The e-mail is not from Microsoft. It contains a
virus.Never run attachments. In this case you're lucky because your mail
client (Outlook?) denies access to executable attachments. Microsoft updates
are only available for download from Microsoft - they never send code. This
is FAQ.

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

"Ian" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:385901c3fdf5$2116c0e0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I recently received an e-mail from microsoft recommending
> a security patch download. The instructions were to click
> yes on the attachment, only I cannot open or see any
> attachment.
>
> I receive regular windows updates automatically do you
> think that will have been included?
>
> Many Thanks for your help
>
> Ian

anonymous
Sun Feb 29 14:41:07 CST 2004

NEVER, that is, N E V E R!! install from an e-mail attachment or through a link they provide. ALWAYS go via the Windows Update site.

N
Mon Mar 01 01:49:58 CST 2004

In article <385901c3fdf5$2116c0e0$a501280a@phx.gbl>,
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> I recently received an e-mail from microsoft recommending
> a security patch download. The instructions were to click
> yes on the attachment, only I cannot open or see any
> attachment.
>
> I receive regular windows updates automatically do you
> think that will have been included?

Microsoft never sends patches by email. Microsoft never sends links to
patches by email. The only genuine Microsoft email that I have received
regarding patches is the Security Bulletin to which I subscribed. The
included links only go to the Microsoft site pages describing the security
issues written up in the bulletin.

You are very fortunate; either you haven't adjusted the security setting for
access to attachments in MSOE 6, or your provider, or some other SMTP
server, neutered the viral attachment; sparing you a viral infection.

Every unsolicited email claiming to be from Microsoft, and containing a
"security patch" as an attachment, is a malicious attempt to infect your
computer; mostly sent from similarly infected computers whose owners are too
clueless to be aware of what they have done. It has been thus for a couple
of years, now, anyway. I can't find the message part of the very first such
email I got. It seems to me that it came in the late spring of 2001, or so.
This sort of counterfeit MSFT email, touting a patch, has been around so
long that it has been written up in newspaper articles more than once.

On the Internet you need to stay alert and stay aware; even though you
aren't, apparently, very paranoid; "They" really are out to get you!

--
Norman
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