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Date:	Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:42:14 PDT7
From:	"Watson, Dave" <david.watson@gd-ais.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	< "'scoug-help@scoug.com'" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Which virus emails are you getting ?

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-----Original Message-----
From: raydav@charter.net [mailto:raydav@charter.net]
Microsoft knows who I am and I have gotten update notices from them for
a long time. How do I differentiate real from bogus?
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You gotta open them up and read them. I don't think there's much risk on
any of the current viruses from reading the mail unless you open an
attachment or hit a link. If the email says you need to get an update, go
to your regular update source, not the link in the message.

Actually, I'm reluctant to be an early adopter on updates from Microsoft or
anyone else. I'd rather let someone else try it first, and I just get the
updates routinely and watch the boards to see if I should hold off because
of some flaw in a recent patch. Microsofts "real" patches have occasionally
been as bad as the hackers' "bogus" patches. I never run out and get a
patch because somebody says I should. So I don't care if it's real or
bogus.

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