Re: The next danger?

We've been seeing that for about 2 weeks. Microsoft never sends out
patches in their emails. You can point users to:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/antivirus/authenticate_mail.asp

@llen

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           Allen Chang
 Lead Network Security Coordinator
  Office of Residential Computing
           UC Berkeley
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Bruce Satow wrote:

> Dear folks,
>
> We been getting a lot of bogus messages that look realistic or
> authentic, which claim to be from Microsoft, and containing patches and
> updates.
>
> I've sent out warning emails regarding these issues, but I see another
> potential headache coming soon, patches and updates sent out using our
> email addresses!
>
>
> --
> Bruce Satow
> Programmer/Analyst
> Space Physics Research Group
> Space Sciences Laboratory
> University of California
> Berkeley, California 94720-7450
> USA
>
> email: satow@ssl.berkeley.edu
> voice: (510) 643-2348
> fax: (510) 643-8302
> URL: http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/~satow
>
> "War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left."
>
>
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