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Subject: Re: IMPORTANT - Therefore it goes !!

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 20:56:14 08/27/03

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On August 27, 2003 at 20:59:07, Eduard Nemeth wrote:

>On August 27, 2003 at 20:02:59, Brian Kostick wrote:
>
>>Eduard,
>>
>>  I know this is not what you asked but generally I would not run such files
>>attached to email as they are generally virus. If you have already run said
>>patch, you probably need to run virus scanning software to remove it.
>>
>>You should be able to get Microsoft approved patches and updates at:
>>http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
>>
>>Regards,
>>BK
>
>Therefore it goes:
>
>The problem is not that I no good virus scanner would have.  I discovered the
>virus!  I find the pretended email address of Microsoft irritating - or dispatch
>now also the virus (unbeabsichtlicht naturally).  Therefore it goes.  Why can't
>a company not completely close or stress such as Microsoft * @microsoft.com for
>itself in the Web?  Therefore it concerns, and not my scanner.  The danger is
>thus less in the virus message, but because of the _irritating_ eMail address.
>
>Eduard

You could just get a free email account at Yahoo and forward the email to that
account and use their free virus scanner to scan it.

I got this same virus emailed to me, and the first clue that's it's totally
bogus is that Microsoft would never refer to a customer as "Dear friend".

Regards,
Keith



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