New Network upgrade

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Andrew

I have just received an email from Microsoft with this
title. It has an exe program attached - UPDATE81.exe (106
KB).

How do I know this is genuine?

(I also received another email soon after which I am
almost sure was NOT genuine. It was purportedly from
Microsoft saying that Iit could not deliver a message.
However I had not sent a message to that address. It also
had an exe attached. I deleted it.)

Thanks

Andrew
 
It is a virus. Someone is gathering e-mail addresses from the MS news groups
and through some automated process, sending out messages with a virus
attached claiming to be from MS. I have had over 5000 in the last couple of
weeks.

MS will NEVER send patches out through the email. The most they will do is
send an email with a link to the patch.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
 
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