XP Profile & E-Mail

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l recently received an e-mail from Microsoft (?) asking me to update my XP
Profile. The Security team at Microsoft said it was probably a legitimate
e-mail, but l still haven't clicked the link therein. My question is: is it
necessary or important to prepare one's "Profile" as suggested for XP Users?
 
l recently received an e-mail from Microsoft (?) asking me to update my XP
Profile. The Security team at Microsoft said it was probably a legitimate
e-mail, but l still haven't clicked the link therein. My question is: is it
necessary or important to prepare one's "Profile" as suggested for XP Users?
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Haven't seen the mail so don't know what the suggestions are. I hope it's
not important as I have no idea what is meant by "XP Profile"! I agree with
your reservations and definitely would not click any links in that email.

If nothing is posted at the Windows Update, Microsoft Update, Windows XP,
or Security pages on microsoft.com in regards to this, I would say the
email was *not* legitimate.

FYI: There is a security newsletter for home users that is available.
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/secnews/default.mspx
 
Bronx49 said:
l recently received an e-mail from Microsoft (?) asking me to update my XP
Profile. The Security team at Microsoft said it was probably a legitimate
e-mail, but l still haven't clicked the link therein. My question is: is it
necessary or important to prepare one's "Profile" as suggested for XP Users?
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Delete it. My gut feeling is that the e-mail *isn't* legit.
Besides why volunteer info? Do you really want to be "profiled"?

gls858
 
Bronx49 said:
l recently received an e-mail from Microsoft (?) asking me to update my
XP
Profile. The Security team at Microsoft said it was probably a
legitimate
e-mail, but l still haven't clicked the link therein. My question is:
is it
necessary or important to prepare one's "Profile" as suggested for XP
Users?
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Presumably you are referring to your Microsoft Passport profile but
since you didn't bother to actually show us the e-mail that you got then
what profile you mean is unknown. Should you decide to show the e-mail,
show the *raw* copy of it. The rendered version of an HTML-formatted
e-mail is worthless for determining if it is a phish mail or not. In
Outlook Express, highlight the message and hit Ctrl+F3 to show the raw
data of the message and copy/paste it here. In Outlook you need to use
the View -> Options menu to copy/paste the headers and then right-click
in the HTML-formatted e-mail to show the source and copy/paste that (the
SpamSource plug-in for Outlook makes it convenient to copy the raw data
of a message into your clipboard or e-mail it). Be user to X-out or
munge any personal info in the message, like your e-mail address or
username. Then we can see if it looks like a Microsoft-originated
e-mail or a phish mail.
 
Hi I got the same email.. I did not click on the link.. especially since you
can get all the updates you want by clicking on the windows update on your
startup... Rainy
 
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