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Re: [RT] Microsoft Patch



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You can expand the headers to read the full source with most any email 
program.  Faking the "from" information is not difficult but the full 
headers should reveal the true source.

Bob


At 11:35 PM 9/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Has anyone besides me been getting an email to install  a Mircrosoft
>patch. In the email "subject" line is this comment:
>
>Use this patch immediately !
>
>Then is says in the body of the note:
>
> > Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
> > There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
> > More than 500.000 already infected!
>
>However, the file attached is a .exe file. I'm sure this is a fraud and
>a virus since it doesn't sound professional, but yet the sending
>destination says:    "Microsoft" <security@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>If anyone has any comment on this, i would appreciate it.
>
>I'm sorry this doesn't apply to trading, but i'm wondering if this is
>originating from someone in RT.
>
>Ralph Volpe
>
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