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<p>One thing to do is to look at the message header by viewing the
message source. Anything that looks like a URL or address that
DOESN'T look like it's absolutely from Microsoft, you can safely
discard.....</p>
<p>But I wouldn't even open the message. I'm copying Ed Bott as he
swims in these waters every day.</p>
<p>Truly, seems like it's bogus and a phishing/malware attempt.</p>
<p>Tom</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/8/19 7:01 PM, Mac McCarthy via
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<div dir="auto">Typo of course: Microsoft Security Updates— my
typong fingers on my cell are terrible.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 1:33
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<p>Smells of a phish attempt to me. I don't get them....
but Microsoft alternately slaughters me with stuff, and
then ignores me, so I'm not a good example.</p>
<p>Ed Bott should know.</p>
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<div>On 10/8/19 4:08 PM, Mac McCarthy via Ipg-smz wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Bogus as in not legitimate, or as in
worthless?</div>
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<p>To my knowledge (I stand to be corrected),
they're bogus. <br>
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<p>Tom<br>
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<div class="gmail_default">I reslize this is
many years late to ask this question, but
what if anything do I do with th periodic
emails from Microsoft labeled "MIcrosoft
Seurity Updates" and similar?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default">Since many
appear to apply to corpoerate servers
and i don't have any of these, I've
been ignoring them. Is that a mistake?</div>
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