Could this be another trojan horse? Someone claiming to be Microsoft Tech Support sent me this email with an attachment, asking me to install the attachment.
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bq. Microsoft Customer
bq. this is the latest version of security update, the "September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which fixes all known security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and MS Outlook Express as well as three new vulnerabilities. Install now to help maintain the security of your computer from these vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow an malicious user to run executable on your computer. This update includes the functionality of all previously released patches.
The nearly perfect English grammar makes it hard to determine from language analysis alone whether this is a hoax. But its never been my experience that Microsoft sends out email request for patches to be done on their product; that would require too much effort on their part; they would prefer for people to come to their support site and manually update their Microsoft products.
If your receive this email, i strongly urge you not to open it. Delete it right away.
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