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Post January 25th, 2004, 2:57 am

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From: "Microsoft" <security@microsoft.com>
Subject: Use this patch immediately !
Message:
Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
More than 500.000 already infected!
Attachment: patch.exe


If you get an e-mail that says this, do NOT open the attached file, it is a virus.

Post January 25th, 2004, 4:59 am
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yeah I used to get ahywhere from 10 up to 300 of those a day, good thing I got a good block of them

Post January 25th, 2004, 5:54 am

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Thank you for your warning! It is very bad for the Internet, that somepeople want to hurt other peoples System...

Post January 25th, 2004, 5:01 pm

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thanks , i juss got a few of those and i didnt open them thank god.

Post January 25th, 2004, 10:09 pm

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oops...I wasn't supposed to open it??? j/k

I never trust those kind of things. sounds similar to that one a while back from support@microsoft.com

Post January 26th, 2004, 12:51 am

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Not too funny gumball...but it is true...If i get any wierd e-mails that i don't like i just erase them and its done. However I wish that there was a program that would send the virus back to whomever sent it and infect thier computer to show them what its like!

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