Re: Use this patch immediately

From: Phil Weldon (notdisclosed_at_example.com)
Date: 10/22/03 

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:52:33 GMT

People come to this newsgroup for help, not attitude. Read some reply posts
here for a behavior template. 

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"eddie" <nobody@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2003.10.22.17.11.06.166000@spamcop.net...
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 06:27:53 -0700, Snowprint wrote:
>
> > I get regular e-mails telling us to use this patch immediately that
appear
> > to be posted from microsoft corp. when I attempt to download the patch
we
> > get a security warning "Authenticode not found".  IF I go to
microsoft.com
> > to download their latest security patch I get the same message.  What
> > shouold I do?  Are these security patches really needed?
>
> No patches come in email from anyone. Anyone who executes any software in
> an email is asking to become another zombie.
> This is common knowledge which has been around for months. No wonder there
> are nearly 1,000,000 zombies out there spewing spam and virii.
> Isn't anyone paying attention to anything?
>

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