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How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Microsoft regularly sends e-mail to subscribers of our security e-mail notification services when we release a Microsoft Security Bulletin. Unfortunately, malicious individuals have been known to send bogus bulletins that appear to be coming from Microsoft, a tactic known as spoofing. Some of these messages lure recipients to malicious Web sites to download malicious code, while others include a file attachment containing a virus. | ||
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| #1 By 415 (199.8.71.121) at 9/30/2003 2:24:42 PM |
| People may never figure it out. If I only had a dollar for every time I've been asked about the jdbgmgr.exe hoax... |
| #2 By 7711 (68.45.61.39) at 9/30/2003 6:37:20 PM |
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How often do I get messages from MS as a reminder that they may send a patch alert (in extreme cases) but they never, never, never send a patch as an attachment.
Lou, you're right...never underestimate the power of human stupidity... Moo, I think every MS security bulletin I've ever gotten from MS was plain text. Maybe other companies are different. |
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