Hoax MS Emails

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For about a month now I have been receiving from 4 to 8
emails each time I access daily only to find about half
are so called Microsoft updates, cumulative patches,
August 2003 or October 2003. I realise they are hoaxes as
Microsoft woiuld never send updates this way, but am at a
loss as to how to stop them coming at such a rate. I have
tried "block sender" to no avail. They all get
quarantined by my Norton AntiVirus as said to be
infected. Fed up and at a loss, can anyone help to stop
them please?
 
Pippin said:
For about a month now I have been receiving from 4 to 8
emails each time I access daily only to find about half
are so called Microsoft updates, cumulative patches,
August 2003 or October 2003. I realise they are hoaxes as
Microsoft woiuld never send updates this way, but am at a
loss as to how to stop them coming at such a rate. I have
tried "block sender" to no avail. They all get
quarantined by my Norton AntiVirus as said to be
infected. Fed up and at a loss, can anyone help to stop
them please?
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There is really little you can do - except to wait it out, or change your
email address.
Wait it out; they will cease.
 
Hi I am having exactly the same problem I get about 12 a
day and I am also sick of this harrasment. I believe that
after two months though they should have now ceased. If
like me you recieve them every time you loggin to your
email acount/new mail inbox.
I have looked into it as much as I can and I am unable to
find any solutions. I am a customer like you and it
shouldn't be up to us to solve the problem.

Good luck in sorting it out If I get any info I will post
it on the site.
Bye
 
Pippin said:
For about a month now I have been receiving from 4 to 8
emails each time I access daily only to find about half
are so called Microsoft updates, cumulative patches,
August 2003 or October 2003. I realise they are hoaxes as
Microsoft woiuld never send updates this way, but am at a
loss as to how to stop them coming at such a rate. I have
tried "block sender" to no avail. They all get
quarantined by my Norton AntiVirus as said to be
infected. Fed up and at a loss, can anyone help to stop
them please?
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Ask your ISP if it's possible to stop them.
 
There's a number of trainable, learning spam filters you could install to
reduce this (Spambayes for instance, if you run Outlook) . Or ask your ISP
if they can filter/block these emails.
 
There's a number of trainable, learning spam filters you could install
to reduce this (Spambayes for instance, if you run Outlook) . Or ask
your ISP if they can filter/block these emails.
Click to expand...

I was recently on the SpameBayes Homepage and saw that they have a
version for Outlook Express now :)

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