[pchelpers] Re: Be Careful

Don,
Apparently the difference between what you got and the Virus is that MS did
not send you the updates as an attachment. You had to go to the Official
Site and download them.

    Cy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Bieber" <the-picture-man@xxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 19:02 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Be Careful


> Just a tiny addition to the thread here. I appreciated all the thoughts
> about this, but here is an additional thought or two.
>
> I am currently signed with Microsoft for notification of updates
> regarding my Office 2000. Today they sent an email to me, to the email
> address that I specified, and informed me of updates that were available,
> I followed it to the Microsoft site and downloaded about 9 different ones
> and installed them, it was legit. I wasn't getting anything I didn't know
> about as I had signed up for the service.
>
> This is never the case for updates for the operating system, only for my
> MS Office 2000.
>
> So, it "is" possible for MS to do this so it shouldn't be a hard and
> fast, chiseled in stone, that MS "never" does anything like that. When
> there's the Blaster and SoBig and the who knows what's next viruses out
> there it is better to err on the side of caution.
>
> That's it..... my 2 cents have ran out.
>
> CU,
> Don Bieber
>
> CU,
> Don Bieber

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