(OT) VIRUS - Fake Microsoft Message (was: Re: Look at this correction update from the MS Corp.)

ActiceX Dev on 09.03.04 03:51 wrote:
> ActiceX Dev wrote:
> 
>> rika inoue wrote:
>>
>> Does this patch fixed the problem that Nascape Standard Plugins(NOT a 
>> COM standard)using NPAPI can not work in the IE?
> 
> 
> Attention!!!
> 
> this patch is reasonably suspicious to be a virus that can steal your 
> Email account,if you download this patch and install it ,you will get a 
> Dialog box informing you to re-fill the acount data such as name and 
> password.you should not be cheated .

LOL. Somehow ironic that an "ActiveX Dev" would (almost?) fall for a 
virus. :-P

This line should have been a dead givaway: "resolves _all_ known 
security vulnerabilities affecting MS Internet Explorer, MS Outlook and 
MS Outlook Express". "All", yeah right! :-D

PS. I don't know what to set the "follow-up" to, since no NG applies. I 
just hope this thread dies (soon).

-- 
Peter Lairo

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