Re: July 2003, Cumulative Patch

From: Kerry Liles (notdisclosed_at_company.com)
Date: 07/17/03 

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:35:24 -0400

You shouldn't rely on your mail server removing attachments - I would hope
you run an up to date AV product on your desktop too?

"silke keelers" <admin@northampton.k12.pa.us> wrote in message
news:0b2801c34c75$ab948db0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> 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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