a message

I have got two emails from someone saying Microsoft and
it says, Dear Friend you need to use this Internet
Explorer patch immediately. I click on the attachment and
a warning comes up and ask me if I want to install this
patch but it also tells me that the publisher is not
authentic. So I just delete it and do not use the patch.
It has nothing showing this message is from Microsoft.Are
you award of this happening to others? Thanks

Greetings --

Any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily available
at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. (Notice that this is the true
URL, rather than the bogus one that may have been contained in the
email you received.) Any messages that point to any other source(s) or
claim to have the patch attached are bogus.

What you probably received is either a malicious hoax or the
output of a computer infected by one of several relatively new, but
wide-spread, mass emailing worms.

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and never will email
unsolicited security patches. At the most, if, and only if, you
subscribe to their security notification newsletter, they will send
you an email informing you that a new patch is available for
downloading.

Microsoft Policies on Software Distribution
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...icy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...patch_hoax.asp


Bruce Chambers

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"Patsy" <buffip@charter.net> wrote in message
news:052c01c369ba$11c766a0$a001280a@phx.gbl...

> I have got two emails from someone saying Microsoft and
> it says, Dear Friend you need to use this Internet
> Explorer patch immediately. I click on the attachment and
> a warning comes up and ask me if I want to install this
> patch but it also tells me that the publisher is not
> authentic. So I just delete it and do not use the patch.
> It has nothing showing this message is from Microsoft.Are
> you award of this happening to others? Thanks

patsy i would not respond to any e mail or web site that
started with dear friend. that can only hurt.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have got two emails from someone saying Microsoft and
>it says, Dear Friend you need to use this Internet
>Explorer patch immediately. I click on the attachment

and

>a warning comes up and ask me if I want to install this
>patch but it also tells me that the publisher is not
>authentic. So I just delete it and do not use the patch.
>It has nothing showing this message is from

Microsoft.Are

>you award of this happening to others? Thanks
>.
>