OT: Speaking of MS Updates

[Jerry Sloan]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 21:38, Fairlight wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 08:43:44PM -0500, Jerry Sloan, the prominent pundit,
> witicized:
> > 
> > The e-mail offering the virus removal tool was most likely the virus
> > itself. 
> 
> For the dear love of all that's holy (pick a religion), did anyone actually
> -READ- my message?  It came through the Windows Update Service--the part
> of Windows that MS actually uses to check their own site for updates and
> offer them.  We refuse to use auto-updates.  We check the Details button,
> and that's where the note detailed what the patch pertained to.
> 
> Where did I say it came through email notification?  If you think I'm
> unaware of the idiotic schemes, you must be joking.  Must be.  I think I've
> even chimed in here a dozen or so times about the stupidity of what people
> will actually fall for, over various OT threads.  Does 2+2 still equal 4?
> Unlike some, I actually practice what I preach, so the possibility of me
> falling for something like this is nil--I'm one of the people that ends up
> analysing everyone else's email when they're "not quite sure".  *eyeroll*
> I'd hardly fall for something like that myself.
> 
> Congratulations on being the second person to insult me this evening.  :)
> 
> "Did IQ's just suddenly DROP while I was away?"  --Lt. Ellen Ripley
> 
> mark->

Sorry..:( I stand corrected..:)

Jerry