Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH>>>> Mimi Gallandt -> Ross Cassell wrote:
 MG>>>>> Ross Cassell -> Bob Klahn wrote:
 RC>>>>>> Hello Bob!

 RC>>>>>> 13 Aug 08 08:49, you wrote to All:

 BK>>>>>>>  I recently got an email with the microsoft
return address, with
 BK>>>>>>>  a link to download the latest version of
Internet Explorer 7.
 BK>>>>>>>  It looked legit, everything looked like it
was from microsoft.
 BK>>>>>>>  However, for some reason I was suspicious.
In addition, I get my
 BK>>>>>>>  updates automatically.

 BK>>>>>>>  So I sent a copy of the email to
support{at}microsoft.com with a
 BK>>>>>>>  note that I suspected it was fake. I got a
reply back, it was
 BK>>>>>>>  fake.

 BK>>>>>>>  So, don't download the latest version of
Internet explorer 7
 BK>>>>>>>  from some link sent you in an email.

 RC>>>>>> All common sense...

 RC>>>>>> Dont download Windows Antivirus 2008/2009 or
you will be sorry.

 RC>>>>>> If one bothers to follow the tech blogs via RSS
feed or otherwise,
 EH>>>> one
 RC>>>>>> can get a feel for when Microsoft and other
software companies are
 MG>>>>> gonna
 RC>>>>>> roll something new down the pike, as far as
Microsoft goes, if one
 RC>>>>>> doesnt have time to read the tech blogs, then
only trust Windows
 MG>>>>> Update.

 MG>>>>> I have my machine set for automatic updates. The
only things I ever
 MG>>>>> download are audiobooks and after downloading them,
before I even
 MG>>> look
 MG>>>>> at the files I run AVG scan selected files on them.

 EH>>>> I am virtually free of M$. I only have one Windows box
and it runs
 EH>>>> Win2k. The rest of my boxes (including this new AMD X2 dual core)
 MG> run
 EH>>>> Linux (Ubuntu) and viruses, spyware and other malware can't touch
 MG> me.

 MG>>> (I'm knocking wood as I type this) The *ONLY* virus I've ever gotten
 MG>>> came from my husband the day after we got remarried. It was
called "I
 MG>>> love you". It didn't hurt my machine but a little worm
got into my
 MG>>> address book and sent itself to everyone in it. (still knocking wood
 MG>>> ) I never open attachments sent to me in email, I
practice safe
 MG>>> computing. :)

 EH>> Heh heh... I remember cleaning that one off of several customers'
 MG> systems.

 EH>> I worked on one guy's computer that had over 100 viruses on it. Of
 EH>> course, he had no anti-virus software at all.

 MG> Sounds like one of those kind of folks who you see doing something
 MG> *REALLY* stupid and you think "how did that guy survive
childhood?" :)

Someone had told him that anti-virus software would slow his computer down.
He soon learned that the alternative slowed it down even more.

Ed

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