Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] watch out for email from 'Microsoft' - OT
From: Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:48:17 -0800 (PST)

FORWARD IT TO MICROSOFT WITH A WARNING NOTE


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- --- 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.
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