Warning! ... My Bad!

From: C.Smith (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/01/03 

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 05:24:51 -0800

After posting a problem on this newsgroup, I started to
rec'd fake MS Security announcement that ask you to patch
your systems with an enclosed attachement. Of course its a
fake announcement with a virus attached.

What distrubt me, is the fact that this happen as soon as I
post a question on this newsgroup! My hotmail account is
new and empty until I list my address in the post. They
even sent a test "fail delivery" message to verified the
email address. I just wanted to alert the community about
this. I have address this to our security admin. and they
were able to ID: the location, OS and the computer name. So
be forwarned. I know this is common among newsgroup in
general and placing my email address may have been an
invite, but I guess I had a different view of a newsgroup
hosted by Microsoft, that I blame myself!

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