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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