George
Mon Sep 08 20:44:55 CDT 2003
If you received a message from The White House would you think the =
President wanted to talk with you? Similarly Microsoft has no idea who =
you are so why would they send you anything let alone a patch? All =
messsages from Microsoft are either advertising or fake. You can decide =
which of the two this patch was and take the appropriate action. =
Believe me the attachment has nothing to do with advertising and =
everything to do with a dangerous fake. It's a virus. You can prove =
this to yourself by saving the attachment to a folder on your machine, =
go to:
http://www.antivirus.com and do a scan on that folder.
--=20
George Hester
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"Nada" <nadadada@hotmail.com> wrote in message =
news:4f9b01c37664$7c2ac210$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> I have a question regarding an email service I just began=20
> through my university. About 10 days after I started=20
> using my new email address, I received an email=20
> from "security@microsoft.com". It told me to execute the=20
> patch that was attached to the message. I know that the=20
> university is just overcoming a huge virus problem. But I=20
> wonder where the message came from--there is no actual=20
> name on the email, and the message is also only 3 lines=20
> long, each ending in an exclamation mark (ie., Use this=20
> patch now!).=20
> Anyway, if anyone can enlighten me on this, I'd really=20
> appreciate it. My first inclination is not to use it, but=20
> then "security@microsoft.com" sounds so legit.
> Thanks very much, Nada.