security update

From: Carol F (freedmanc@attbi.com)
Date: 04/02/03 

From: "Carol F" <freedmanc@attbi.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:32:31 -0800

Thank you for the info. I was reading through this site
after posting and realized another message addressed it.
Thanks for your quick reponse. Hurray for my anti
virus??!!!!!!!!
>-----Original Message-----
>Carol, Microsoft NEVER sends updates via e-mail. So you
>can be sure that e-mail you received was not from them.
It
>is a "popular" thing to send malicious code (like trojans
>or viruses) under the name of Microsoft.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have no idea if this is the proper newsgroup?! But
here
>>goes. I got an email from Microsoft Technical Network
>>Support which stated an Internet Scurity Pack was
>>attached. It is the latest version of security update
>>April 2003 cumulative patch. I tried to open the
>>attachment but I had warn.txt which stated my RAV anti
>>virus has deleted file because it contained dangerous
>>code. I have spent the afternoon trying to locate that
>>patch on the Microsoft site--as always, I can't find a
>>thing about it and there is no way to email back to this
>>group--if it exists, of course. Any suggestions on what
>>this is all about? It is supposed to patch all known
>>security vulnerabilities of OUtlook Outlook express and
>>Internest Explorer. Seems like that big a deal would be
>>on the website somewhere. Help?
>>.
>>
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