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How to tell if a Security bulletin came from
Microsoft:
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You should first subscribed to
Microsoft Security Update for Home Users and Small Businesses e-mail
notification service.
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Microsoft will *NEVER* send file
attachments.
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Microsoft sends the bulletins in plain text
ONLY. Never in HTML or formatted (RTF) e-mail.
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Microsoft ALWAYS digitally signs the message with a
PGP
signature.
Download
the free version to verify the message.
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Microsoft *NEVER* links directly to the
patch. Only to a Security Bulletin that has a link to the patch. (The link will start
with http://www.microsoft.com )
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Enable Windows Update Client. (How-To coming
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Note: Microsoft
Support (PSS) will never send out a e-mail with an attachment. They will
only e-mail you after you have requested the file or PSS has offered it to
you. They will e-mail you a link directly to the file with a password for
the file with a
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Other Links
www.microsoft.com/security
(Home Users)
www.microsoft.com/technet/security (Corporate Users/Admin's)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/news/patch_hoax.asp
(Microsoft's statement.)
Anti-Virus venders. I have listed mostly free ones, and the one I suggest,
Norton Anti-Virus on my other website.
Some parts referenced from
Microsoft.com.
Page Last updated: Feburary 8th, 2004 at 6:29pm EST
Copyright 2004 Eric C. Vogel.
(Some parts by Microsoft) No part of this can be reproduced or re-printed with out the permission of
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