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- 21 Jan 2004 21:10 GMT

I asked a question on this site last night and this
mourning I recieved emails that looked like they were from
Microsoft, but contained a Worm. It was picked up by my
ISP before we got it.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 22 Jan 2004 13:21 GMT

The worm did NOT come from this newsgroup. If you posted a question using
your real email address, there are worms out there that harvest addresses
from these newsgroups and use them to send messages containing virii, worms,
spam.

Microsoft never sends updates by email.

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Hope this helps

>I asked a question on this site last night and this
> mourning I recieved emails that looked like they were from
> Microsoft, but contained a Worm. It was picked up by my
> ISP before we got it.

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- 27 Jan 2004 15:14 GMT

So is there any way to get our address removed from this
post?

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>The worm did NOT come from this newsgroup. If you posted a question using
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