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CWLee
This was just posted on a consumer oriented newsgroup. I
wonder if it is just a scam or if it is legit? My guess is
some of you guys here are sufficiently close to Microsoft to
know the answer. Your insight appreciated.
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From: (e-mail address removed)
Last fall, I concluded a column about Windows security with
this
suggestion: "Here's a modest proposal: Microsoft should
use some of
its $49 billion hoard to mail an update CD to anybody who
wants one."
Microsoft is now doing exactly what I suggested -
www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp
That's right - a CD with all the critical updates Microsoft
has
shipped for Windows 98, 98 SE, Millennium, 2000, and XP
through Oct.
15, 2003.
This "Microsoft Windows Security Update CD" is available for
free to
anybody in the U.S. and 19 other countries. My thanks to
Microsoft
for doing the right thing.
Now, to those of you out there who haven't updated your
copies of
Windows, my strongly worded advice - ORDER THIS THING NOW.
I mean it.
Using an unprotected Windows installation goes beyond
risking your own
peace and quiet. It threatens everybody else on the
Internet. At best,
when your unpatched machine inevitable gets hacked into,
your friends
will be annoyed at getting so many copies of a virus or worm
from you.
At worst, your computer will be silently taken over and used
to
broadcast spam and store other people's files, which could
be
everything from porn to pirated software.
In that case, the best outcome you can hope for is that your
Internet
provider will be smart enough to notice the extra traffic
spewing out
of your infected machine, and will cut off your account
until you fix
things.
So please, install this update. Help your friends and family
do the
same.
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CWLee
"If elected, my highest priority upon taking office will be
to get the gazelles and the lions to negotiate a peaceful
solution to their long-standing differences." Tarzan,
Democratic candidate for King of the Jungle.
wonder if it is just a scam or if it is legit? My guess is
some of you guys here are sufficiently close to Microsoft to
know the answer. Your insight appreciated.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
From: (e-mail address removed)
Last fall, I concluded a column about Windows security with
this
suggestion: "Here's a modest proposal: Microsoft should
use some of
its $49 billion hoard to mail an update CD to anybody who
wants one."
Microsoft is now doing exactly what I suggested -
www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp
That's right - a CD with all the critical updates Microsoft
has
shipped for Windows 98, 98 SE, Millennium, 2000, and XP
through Oct.
15, 2003.
This "Microsoft Windows Security Update CD" is available for
free to
anybody in the U.S. and 19 other countries. My thanks to
Microsoft
for doing the right thing.
Now, to those of you out there who haven't updated your
copies of
Windows, my strongly worded advice - ORDER THIS THING NOW.
I mean it.
Using an unprotected Windows installation goes beyond
risking your own
peace and quiet. It threatens everybody else on the
Internet. At best,
when your unpatched machine inevitable gets hacked into,
your friends
will be annoyed at getting so many copies of a virus or worm
from you.
At worst, your computer will be silently taken over and used
to
broadcast spam and store other people's files, which could
be
everything from porn to pirated software.
In that case, the best outcome you can hope for is that your
Internet
provider will be smart enough to notice the extra traffic
spewing out
of your infected machine, and will cut off your account
until you fix
things.
So please, install this update. Help your friends and family
do the
same.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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CWLee
"If elected, my highest priority upon taking office will be
to get the gazelles and the lions to negotiate a peaceful
solution to their long-standing differences." Tarzan,
Democratic candidate for King of the Jungle.