Re: Email claiming to be Microsoft patch

From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/22/04 

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:10:48 -0400

You don't. They know about it and have addressed it. Constantly. They cannot stop it for Microsoft does not have control of the Internet. Thank goodness. The feasible response to such an issue is on our part and we need to understand that when someone tries to sell us the Brooklyn Bridge it is imperative on our part to question the entity's veracity. 

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George Hester
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"Dan O." <dorlowski1@cogeco.ca> wrote in message news:1f91d01c457fe$1bead120$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I received an email which claims to be from Microsoft 
> Security with a patch that I'm supposed to install. The 
> script looks tacky but claims to be Microsoft.  Norton 
> has quarantined the email and I won't open it.  How would 
> I get in contact with microsoft to let them evaluate it.

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