Speaking of MS Updates

[GCC Consulting]

Mark,

Please take this as a missive to those careless enough  not have their systems
locked down as tightly as you do.

Not all sysadmins are as through in their management so, what I said may just
wake someone up.

Richard


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> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:31 PM
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> Subject: Re: Speaking of MS Updates
> 
> 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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