Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]FORWARD IT TO MICROSOFT WITH A WARNING NOTE ============================================================ - --- Dan Cardish <dcardish@sympatico.ca> wrote: > I just received a most insiduous email, from what looked > like Microsoft > Corp. It starts off with "Bulletin MS02-005.", and > purports to describe an > update to "protect your computer from these > vulnerabilities, the most > serious of which > could allow an attacker to run code on your computer.", > and goes on in > great details about what these vulnarabilities are. The > email looks very > professional, and even has links back to Microsoft for > more information, > copyright notices, etc. > > The problem is that the email contains an exe file as an > attachment, and > asks you to run it. > > I am quite certain that Microsoft will never send > attachments to people in > order to get them to update their operating systems. > This email is > undoubtedly a fake, and I most certainly did not download > nor run the > attachment. > > Please be on guard for this. > > Dan C. > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html