Idiot virus messages from "Microsoft"

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William B. Lurie

Yes, we're all getting hundreds of those, obviously not
from Microsoft. It's too bad that Microsoft, with all its
clout and power and capabilities, doesn't take some positive
action, like finding a way to tell people how to block
and delete those spurious messages. I'm wearing out
my "Delete" button.

William B. Lurie
 
William B. Lurie said:
Yes, we're all getting hundreds of those, obviously not
from Microsoft. It's too bad that Microsoft, with all its
clout and power and capabilities, doesn't take some positive
action, like finding a way to tell people how to block
and delete those spurious messages. I'm wearing out
my "Delete" button.
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William,

If you allow e-mail to be received from unsolicited sources then you are at
risk.
(how you do this depends on your e-mail server/service and client)
If the e-mail header is faked to include a source that you trust, then there
is very little we or you can do other then have an up to date virus scanner,
and be aware of our own published policies on the sending of e-mail with
attachments.
see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp


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Regards,

Mike
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Mike Brannigan [Microsoft]

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If your Internet Provider supports webmail you could read the headers,
select them all with one click and delete them all at once right on the
IPV server fifty or so at a time.
I always use Webmail to inspect incoming messages beforehand.
 
Thank you, Mike, for the link and the info. I was,
of course, aware that it would be very difficult for
Microsoft to take active steps to eliminate the
spurious and scandalous misuse of its name. I
was sort of tilting at a windmill, hoping that Big
Brother might ingeniously devise a cheat-proof
way for us victims to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Bill Luie
 
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