Re: redirect to "You have been hacked"

From: Mike Burgess (winhelp2002_at_spamthis.com)
Date: 12/18/03 

Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:13:15 -0500

Colleen,
No the language packs are not needed ....

As for the emails, they are NOT from MS but are bogus!
See: "Preventing the spread of Worms and Spam"
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/security.htm
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Mike Burgess [MVP Windows Shell\User] http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Spyware, Adware, Parasites, Hijackers, Trojans, with a HOSTS file
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm [updated 12-15-03]
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<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> I reposted the HT log file after I think I did what you
> said to do...I apologize. Sometimes I get lost in all this
> computer stuff.  I posted it on the website you
> suggested...18th December 2003 - 09:05 AM
>
> I did go in and download all the critical updates, but not
> all millenium ones...should I have done that, too?  So
> many were language packs, I didn't think they
> were "critical"  However since I went to the site, i have
> beengetting emails from microsoft (how did they get that
> email? did i give it to them?)  The emails have
> been "cleaned" by mcafee of a virus...swen something.
>
> Why?
>
> Thank you so much for your help.  Except for the emails, I
> think everything is more normal...
>
> Colleen
>

Relevant Pages

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    ... said to do...I apologize. ... Sometimes I get lost in all this ... I did go in and download all the critical updates, ... The emails have ...
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