It looks like an email has been moving its way around people in regards to a Microsoft patch. Supposedly, ‘Microsoft’ is telling everyone that they need to update their computers with a critical patch… so critical that they have gone out of their way to email everyone with the appropriate Windows Operating System. Well, that is definitely not the case. I have never heard of Microsoft sending out emails in regards to patches. Why would they when they have a Windows updater built right into their operating system? So, if you do run into this email, make sure you just ignore it and toss it in the trash.

Be careful what Microsoft patch you download.

The Internet Storm Center is warning that hackers are spamming e-mail messages that purport to be a Microsoft security update. The phony e-mail doesn’t carry any fixes. Actually, it contains malicious code to infect unwary users who open the message and click on any links or attachments.

“Microsoft would never e-mail patches, so I don’t know why people still fall for this but they do,” said Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the Internet Storm Center, in an interview. “It seems like everybody got a copy of the e-mail. It was spammed out to a very large list. How many people clicked on it, I really don’t know.”[more]

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