Re: wrong information from false microsoft softwarte

From: Neil Pike (neilpike_at_compuserve.com)
Date: 09/29/03


Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:36:01 +0100


Claes - you did NOT get any of the emails from Microsoft. They are created by
a virus called SWEN that has been rampant for more than a week and are coming
from the infected machines of people who have been too duped into running the
attachments.

 Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd
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