Re: E-mailed New Security Pack?

From: Bill Sanderson (Bill_Sanderson_at_msn.com.plugh.org)
Date: 10/02/03 

Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 00:54:16 -0400

You can be infected via merely opening the message if your browser is not
properly patched.

You would know quite quickly whether you are infected, however--there are a
variety of spurious error messages this thing displays.

Simply deleting the thing, and then deleting it from deleted messages (if
applicable) is sufficient.

If you are in doubt about possible infection, run a cleaner app from either
Symantec or McAfee just for peace of mind.

"R. P. Hintze" <rphintze@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:1cb6e01c3887c$27730f00$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Thanks for all the replies. I thought it probably was
> bogus. I did not open the attachment. I did open the e-
> mail and read it. Is it enough to delete the e-mail? Or
> is there some other steps I should take.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I received an e-mail proporting to be from Microsoft.
> >The subject of the e-mai is "New Security Pack." It has
> >an attachment that it says is a patch to fix certain
> >vulnerabilities in Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express
> >plus thre other problems. How do I verify that this
> >actually came from Microsoft?
> >.
> >

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