Re: Email from Microsoft.. bogus or legitimate?

From: Curt (no-no_at_notime.com)
Date: 09/27/03 

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:21:59 -0500

"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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They are bogus. Someone is maliciously spoofing MS in an attempt to spread
viruses to MS OS's end users. MS never sends updates/patches through email.
Just delete the messages and you'll be fine. Or, you can setup rules in your
mail program to filter such messages to a junk file. Also, if you are able
to check messages at the server level this would allow you to delete them
before they got anywhere near your system. Mailwasher 2b28.exe is a good
program to use preview mail before downloading. It is available here,
http://www.real-world-solutions.org/ftp/ . 

-- 
Curt.

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