Speaking of MS Updates

[Fairlight]

The honourable and venerable GCC Consulting spoke thus:
> My standard practice is to delete anything that tells me my system is likely
> infected if it isn't something I have run.  I assume that these messages are
> either viruses or spy/mal ware.

Give me a -bit- of credit, Richard, please.  Nothing like this would reach
either of us in email via the normal tactics due to our mail authorisation
system--and I guarantee you microsoft.com is -not- on our whitelists.

This came -THROUGH- the -official- MS Windows Update system, via the little
dealie that blinks in systray when you've configured 'doze to notify you of
available updates.

We rejected this tool, of course, as it's useless to us.  Why bloat the
system more with something we don't need?

> Between Outlook 2003 junk mail removal, Ihatespamm and Norton anti-virus
> tagging what it thinks is junk mail, most stuff never bothers me, It's
> deleted.

Certainly--if that was the case.  It isn't though.  This was straight from
the update site, and M$'s own software.  

I've been accused of being foolish before, but I've never been taken for
a complete fool--to my face anyway.  I guess there's a first time for
everything.  Thanks for the vote of supreme confidence vis a vis implying
that I would be gullible enough (as a sysadmin!!!???) to not recognise
something like that coming through mail as a hoax.  You have a good evening
too. :)

mark->
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