Got email update from Microsoft??

[Sherrylbw]

Since I came to this newsgroup yesterday, I've gotten
about 6 or 7 emails from "Microsoft" about Windows
Updates. Is this for real?? I didn't know they sent
update emails. I just go check their sight once a week.

 

[Lorne Smith]

Since I came to this newsgroup yesterday, I've gotten
about 6 or 7 emails from "Microsoft" about Windows
Updates. Is this for real?? I didn't know they sent
update emails. I just go check their sight once a week.

It's a hoax and contains a virus. Do NOT run the attachment or you will be
infected. Microsoft do NOT and NEVER will send patches to individual users
or newsgroups... Just read some of the 100's of posts in these newsgroups
on the same subjects...

Lorne

 

[Mike Brearley]

Cloak your e-mail address when posting to news groups. Change it to
something like (e-mail address removed)12.ga.us or anything else that
will be quite easy for an actual person to notice and remove before replying
directly to you. You can also just put a false e-mail address in like
(e-mail address removed). By posting with your real
e-mail address, bots out there scan and automatically add your e-mail
address into databases and you'll soon start seeing hundreds of spam a day.

Also, if you fill out online forms, use an alias hotmail account or yahoo
account that doesn't make a difference to you if you create a new one and
stop using the first one.

--
Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley

 

[Randy Molitor]

You can eliminate most of this by doing the following:

Select Tools>Message Rules>Mail>Mail Rules tab>New button>1: Select the
conditions for your rule: Check "Where the TO line contains people, 2:
Select the action for your rule: Check "Delete it from server", 3: Rule
description, Left click "contains people", enter your email addresses at the
blinking cursor, click on Add, click on the Options button, Select "Message
does not contain the people below", click OK, OK, OK, OK. You're done.

 

[Bob]

Don't fall for it. MS never sends emails with fixes or
updates. If you didn't find it on their website (or have
it auto-upgraded) it is probably a fake, a hoax, or a
virus. Don't touch it except to delete from your system.