Re: Email Problems

From: Pent (pent)
Date: 10/29/03


Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:48:34 -0500

Don't open any file attachments!
Read 1,000,000,000... of posts before yours.
MS doesn't send any update attachments in emails.

"Henry132" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:053d01c39dc6$06037080$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Recently and for the first time I used the Windows Update
> option from my start menu. From the Microsoft support
> page I selected a critical files update and downloaded the
> files to my hard drive. Since then each time I check my
> email there are from 8 to 12 emails to me. Some are from
> Microsoft notifiying me of updates for my Windows 98
> system. I open the emails and the message tells me my
> computer does not need the file. More disturbing to me
> are email files from addresses I don't know that open up
> automatically and then close. My virus software
> identifies them as infected files and cleans and deletes
> them. Downloading the Windows update seems to have opened
> a Pandora's Box with the lift stuck open.
>
> Need help with this one.
>



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