Re: July 2003, Cumulative Patch

From: silke keelers (admin_at_northampton.k12.pa.us)
Date: 07/17/03


Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:11:17 -0700


Thanks for the input about Microsoft never sending out
patches. I looked into it and it is actually a virus
(W32/gibe.gen@mm) "posing" as a Mircosoft update message
(looks darn official too). Good thing our email server
caught that thing.

>-----Original Message-----
>Microsoft never ever sends out patches! The only thing
they send out is
>notifications and link to knowledge base and LINK to
patch!
>All of this would be hosted on Microsoft site!
>
>E-mail that you got is a scam! Delete it!
>
>--
>Mike
>MCSA 2K, MCSE 2K, MCT, ...
>
>"silke keeler" <admin@northampton.k12.pa.us> wrote in
message
>news:046901c34c5f$7fa1a550$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> I just received an email from Microsoft with the latest
>> July 2003, Cumulative Patch. The file came as an
>> attachment named patch408.exe. Unfortunately our email
>> server removes all file attachments of type .exe.
>> If someone has this update can you send it to me but
>> rename the file extension to .txt.
>>
>> I have searched Microsoft's website for this patch and
I'm
>> unable to find it.
>
>
>.
>



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