Re: Email from Microsoft????

HEMI-Powered wrote:
Steve Riley [MSFT] added these comments in the current
discussion du jour ...

Yes, we send emails for various things people subscribe to.

What we *don't* do is send attachments. This is completely
against our policy. If you ever receive an email that looks
like it came from us and it has an attachment, send the entire
email (as an attachment) to secure@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and then
delete it.

I have never gotten a single E-mail from MS, ever. Not for Windows, not for office, not for development tools. If there is some service meant as a newsletter, I've never seen it.


There are such newsletters, but they're all by subscription only. At the most, if, and only if, you subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will send you an email informing you that a new patch is available for downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp


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