posting your email may get you a virus!

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kezg

just a note of caution on entering your real email
address when posting a thread, shortly after i made a new
topic and used my real email address I recieved 2 emails
disguised as official microsoft emails, which claimed to
be OS updates and had .exe files attached!
i ran a spyware etc check from my pc and they were found
to be malicous content. and i deleted them.
Since i used a macintosh for internet and email i am
quite safe from these kind of attacks, but if i tried to
open them on my win pc they would run and probably infect
it.
So just be careful guys!
 
Microsoft never sends emails with executable files for updates. Everyone
knows that. All operating system updates are done at the Windows Update
website.
 
Not everyone knows that. I didn't, and I'm glad that the original message was posted to let us know about i

----- Kevin wrote: ----

Microsoft never sends emails with executable files for updates. Everyon
knows that. All operating system updates are done at the Windows Updat
website
 
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