Bogus MS 'critical update' - PANIC OVER

[Scott Silva]

    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

Alex Neuman van der Hans spake the following on 7/25/2005 6:59 AM:
> Nigel kendrick wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Nigel
>>>
>>>what's the attachment and what Anti-virus are you running. By defauly MS 
>>>should block .exe's so have you 'tweaked' the filetype scanning on your 
>>>system??
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>Duh - this was picked up by Outlook from a third party mail server, but due
>>to a rules error on my part it ended up in the wrong inbox folder and I
>>didn't notice that it didn't come through our server. 
>>
>>I have just sent myself an .exe and it was blocked.
>>
>>Getting another strong coffee right now...
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Nigel
>>
>>------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
>>To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
>>'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
>>Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
>>the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).
>>
>>Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>> 
>>
> 
> In any case the grammatical errors and inconsistent writing style should
> have given it away as bogus... :)
> 
The biggest giveaway is that Microsoft NEVER mails updates to customers
with attachments.
They are only pushed through the windows update channels.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/incident/authenticate_mail.mspx


-- 

/-----------------------\           |~~\_____/~~\__  |
| MailScanner; The best |___________ \N1____====== )-+
| protection on the net!|                   ~~~|/~~  |
\-----------------------/                      ()

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!