Re: Email from Microsoft.. bogus or legitimate?

From: GoumbaYa (f-me_at_fu.net)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:48:34 -0400

If you'd only read the forum before posting.

"Garth Mawhinney" <blooie427@rogers.com> wrote in message
news:1282101c38433$c28795d0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Good Day to you....
> In the recent past I have been deleting e-mails which
> showed the sender as being Microsoft.
> The content descriptions were something like "install
> patch immediately" and similar words.
> I considered them as being possible viruses until I saw a
> program originating in the UK which more or less treated
> them as legitimate.
> I checked with Windows Update and their search of my
> computer didn't call for an update...
> Can anyone comment?
>
> Thanks in advance..

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