is this legitimate Email?

[wilf frederick]

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Title: Microsoft Security Bulletin Minor Revisions
Issued: April 15, 2006
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Summary
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The following bulletins have undergone a minor revision increment.
Please see the appropriate bulletin for more details.

* MS06-015

Bulletin Information:
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* MS06-015

- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-015.mspx
- Reason for Revision: "Caveats" section updated due to new issues
discovered with the security update. Users may experience issues
in Windows Explorer or the Windows shell after installing the
update. Security Update Information revised to reflect correct
file version information for Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft
Windows 2000.
- Originally posted: April 11, 2006
- Updated: April 15, 2006
- Bulletin Severity Rating: Critical
- Version: 1.1

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[Guest]

Your best bet, if you're ever unsure if an email is legitimate, is to read
the raw data. If you're using Outlook Express, go to the message properties
and look at the headers. This will trace the path the message traveled. You
can also copy and paste links from emails instead of viewing them directly.
As an added tip, Windows XP hides certain file extensions, such as .shs, even
when you have your options set not to hide file extensions. this can cause
problems when opening a file, because it could appear to be of a trusted file
type. Therefore, look at it closely and check with the person who sent it.
Always view the raw source, which includes inforrmation to helpyou determine
if the file is an mp3 file of your favorite singer, or a hidden program.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Microsoft don't send unsolicited emails. The only way you would get an email
from Microsoft is if a) you had emailed them yourself; b) you subscribed to
a particular newsletter. If you haven't done either of these then ignore the
email you received. While the content of the email is the same as an
'official' one that i received from Microsoft on the 13 April the actual
dates (originally posted and updated dates) of the update patches etc are
totally wrong.

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org

The information in this post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any kind,
either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy,
reliability or content of this post. The Author shall not be liable for any
direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use
of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this post..

 

[Richard Urban MVP]

The one that Will got has the same dates as the one that I received. It is
legitimate.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[PopS]

No, it is not. MS doesn't send such emails. Period.

 

[PopS]

No, it is not.

 

[Richard Urban MVP]

I subscribe to their service. Many others do also. I get the email. It is
real, though you don't know it!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Galen]

In Richard Urban MVP had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I subscribe to their service. Many others do also. I get the email.
It is real, though you don't know it!

Yes, yes it's real probably, potentially, likely... I have a hard time
picturing phishing with this particular nugget of information but who knows?
<g> Anyhow, yeah, it's likely real.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[Galen]

In wilf frederick had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

-----IS THIS LEGITIMATE EMAIL FROM MICROSOFT?

You may wish to ignore some of the responses. Yes it potentially is a
legitimate email. You get it via signing up to request security
notifications from the Microsoft site. Right click and check the IP address.
Take that address and head to www.dnsstuff.com and enter it in and you'll
find out who it's from normally. In this case you probably subscribed to
their service and you'll want to read the email in plain text. When you post
emails into newsgroups to find out if they're real or not you should post
the entire thing including the headers. Don't post the body of the email -
that will do no good - but rather post the actual source of the email so
that we can see if the URLs are real and if they lead to legitimate sites.

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes

 

[John Barnett MVP]

As i said in my original reply:

"Microsoft don't send unsolicited emails. The only way you would get an
email from Microsoft is if a) you had emailed them yourself; b) you
subscribed to a particular newsletter. If you haven't done either of these
then ignore the email you received.

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org

The information in this post is supplied "as is". No warranty of any kind,
either expressed or implied, is made in relation to the accuracy,
reliability or content of this post. The Author shall not be liable for any
direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use
of, or inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this post..

 

[Galen]

In John Barnett MVP had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

As i said in my original reply:

"Microsoft don't send unsolicited emails. The only way you would get
an email from Microsoft is if a) you had emailed them yourself; b) you
subscribed to a particular newsletter. If you haven't done either of
these then ignore the email you received.

Yip. Some Pop person's givin' the OP mis-information. Wanted to make sure
that they knew that you and Richard were telling 'em the truth as this Pop
person had been the last one to post. Wouldn't want 'em to think you were
giving them wrong information or anything. <g>

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
http://kgiii.info/

"At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my
declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the
whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes