E-mails

[Shirley Lane]

Over the past week I have had four e-mails supposedly
from Microsoft with an attachment supposedly for a patch
to protect from the current worms and viruses. I have not
opened them because whenever there is a patch from
Microsoft its announcement comes in a pop-up. Am I right
to suspedt this is just another way to try and infect my
machine
Thanks
Shirley

[Nicholas]

Shirley --

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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"Shirley Lane" > wrote in message:
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| Over the past week I have had four e-mails supposedly=20
| from Microsoft with an attachment supposedly for a patch=20
| to protect from the current worms and viruses. I have not=20
| opened them because whenever there is a patch from=20
| Microsoft its announcement comes in a pop-up. Am I right=20
| to suspedt this is just another way to try and infect my=20
| machine
| Thanks
| Shirley

[Malvern]

"Shirley Lane" > wrote in message
...
> Over the past week I have had four e-mails supposedly
> from Microsoft with an attachment supposedly for a patch
> to protect from the current worms and viruses. I have not
> opened them because whenever there is a patch from
> Microsoft its announcement comes in a pop-up. Am I right
> to suspedt this is just another way to try and infect my
> machine
> Thanks
> Shirley

DELETE THEM as they come in ! Virus laden. Microsoft has not, is not, and
hopefully will not send unsolicited e-mails. I replied to a similar post on
this very subject yesterday: consider the sheer volume of e-mail that would
be sent and the amount that would be returned to MS for various reasons.
They chose the more reasonable approach of a website with provision to
download patches, something we read about on here daily :)

Malv

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

It's good that you're skeptical, but, had you taken a few minutes
to check the headers of the email, you would have seen immediately
that it wasn't from Microsoft.

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.

What you probably received is either a malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several relatively new, but
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


Bruce Chambers

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"Shirley Lane" > wrote in message
...
> Over the past week I have had four e-mails supposedly
> from Microsoft with an attachment supposedly for a patch
> to protect from the current worms and viruses. I have not
> opened them because whenever there is a patch from
> Microsoft its announcement comes in a pop-up. Am I right
> to suspedt this is just another way to try and infect my
> machine
> Thanks
> Shirley