Email about downloading a patch

[Carol]

I keep getting an e-mail from
telling me that I need to download the attached Internet
Explorer patch immediately. Has anyone else gotten this
email. I get up to 10 per day. Needless to say, I have
not downloaded it. I did block that address. Thanks for
any help or ideas.

[Nicholas]

Some devious person is "spoofing" Microsoft. The email message is
not from Microsoft and should be deleted immediately!

Please take a moment to read the following article:

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin E-mails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=3D/technet/secu=
rity/news/patch_hoax.asp


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Nicholas

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| any help or ideas.

[Richard Hay]

It is bogus and unless you have some form of blocking for SPAM you will
continue to get it.


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Richard Hay
Webmaster
http://AnotherWin95.com
"Carol" > wrote in message
...
> I keep getting an e-mail from
> telling me that I need to download the attached Internet
> Explorer patch immediately. Has anyone else gotten this
> email. I get up to 10 per day. Needless to say, I have
> not downloaded it. I did block that address. Thanks for
> any help or ideas.

[SpamCop]

"Carol" > wrote in message
...
> I keep getting an e-mail from
> telling me that I need to download the attached Internet
> Explorer patch immediately. Has anyone else gotten this
> email. I get up to 10 per day. Needless to say, I have
> not downloaded it. I did block that address. Thanks for
> any help or ideas.

What attached IE patch?

It probably is bogus and besides, a legit download would only come from a
microsoft.com site.

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

What you received is either a very common malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several wide-spread, mass
emailing worms.

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and never will email
unsolicited security patches. 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

Any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily available
at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. (Notice that this is the true
URL, rather than the bogus one that may have been contained in the
email you received.) Any messages that point to any other source(s) or
claim to have the patch attached are bogus.


Bruce Chambers

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"Carol" > wrote in message
...
> I keep getting an e-mail from
> telling me that I need to download the attached Internet
> Explorer patch immediately. Has anyone else gotten this
> email. I get up to 10 per day. Needless to say, I have
> not downloaded it. I did block that address. Thanks for
> any help or ideas.