Microsoft site is not safe.

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sam

i strongly recommend anyone who is posting a message to
not put their email address. The front page does say this
but dont fall into false pretences that being microsoft,
the biggest of the biggest, it should be safe.

I have recently had to change my email address becasue
everyday i would get an email from 'microsoft' saying i
needed to update my security or a message was failed. In
some of these there is an attachment which hotmail blocks
due to a virus.

So in conclusion dont ever put your email address on here
because due to the minority who find it clever to piss
people off, they will do what they do best.

Has anyone else experienced getting these emails?

they often look like microsoft emails, or they are just a
postmaster delvery failed with some odd email address.


Sam
 
i strongly recommend anyone who is posting a message to
not put their email address. The front page does say this
but dont fall into false pretences that being microsoft,
the biggest of the biggest, it should be safe.

I have recently had to change my email address becasue
everyday i would get an email from 'microsoft' saying i
needed to update my security or a message was failed. In
some of these there is an attachment which hotmail blocks
due to a virus.

So in conclusion dont ever put your email address on here
because due to the minority who find it clever to piss
people off, they will do what they do best.

Has anyone else experienced getting these emails?

they often look like microsoft emails, or they are just a
postmaster delvery failed with some odd email address.

Sam

Sam, the internet has been swamped with bogus emails that carry virus
attachments for quite a while now. At the height of propogation, I know
folks that were receiving emails from infected machines at the rate of a
few hundred per hour. The worms pull new email addresses from many sources
including address books, web pages and newsreader message stores.

Being careful about your reply address in headers does not apply to just
the MS news servers. It applies to any news server - ones that propagate to
usenet or private.
 
Has anyone else experienced getting these emails?

and 101 other scams and spams.

The latest scam pretends to tell you how to collect the proceeds from an
ebay acution that you know nothing about.
 
Greetings --

It's been well known for years now that posting/publishing a real
email address to _any_ newsgroup or web site is an open initiation to
be spammed. For years now, spammers have been using automated tools
to harvest email addresses from the Internet and Usenet. What I don't
understand is why you're just now noticing the phenomenon. Was this
the first time you ever posted to Usenet?

What you received is the output of a computer infected by one of
several widely publicized, wide-spread, mass emailing worms. The
virus' authors have deliberately spoofed the Microsoft information in
the hopes of garnering more victims. This sort of email has been
quite common for at least the past 9 months. The most widely-known
are:

W32.Swen.A_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Dumaru_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

W32.Gibe_mm
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[email protected]

Trojan.Xombe
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.xombe.html

Microsoft never has, does not currently, and very probably 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/treeview/?url=/technet/security/policy/swdist.asp

Information on Bogus Microsoft Security Bulletin Emails
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp

How to Tell If a Microsoft Security-Related Message Is Genuine
http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp

Remember, any and all legitimate patches and updates are readily
available at http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/. You should develop
the habit of checking this site at least once a month to keep your
computer up-to-date. (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.

You're receiving these emails because your email address is in
the address book of someone infected with a worm, and/or because you
posted your real email address somewhere on-line, either in a forum
accessible to the public and spambots, such as Usenet, or on an
untrustworthy web site that subsequently sold your address as part of
a mailing list. One thing you can do is notify _everyone_ with whom
you've ever corresponded via email that one or more of them may be
infected with a mass emailing worm, and should take the appropriate
steps.


Bruce Chambers
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Microsoft makes it very clear that they do NOT send updates, notices, etc.
by e-mail. Therefore, anything that comes via e-mail from any source
appearing to be MS should be deleted pronto. I regularly receive potential
viruses that are 142 and 154KB in size and have varying addresses. I am
alert to them and others. CGS
 
Clavin Schwindt said:
Microsoft makes it very clear that they do NOT send updates, notices, etc.
by e-mail. Therefore, anything that comes via e-mail from any source
appearing to be MS should be deleted pronto. I regularly receive potential
viruses that are 142 and 154KB in size and have varying addresses. I am
alert to them and others. CGS

I am aware of all of that.
- but I assume you were trying to reply to the original poster.
As an Outlook Express user you should highlight the original posters post
and then pre Reply Group.

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Mike
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