Email from 'Microsoft'

[Tim Wunder]

The sad thing is... there are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of PC 
users that will run the thing :-(

On Sunday 24 August 2003 4:50 pm, someone claiming to be Brett I. Holcomb 
wrote:
> If you are crazy enough to run it <G> please let us know what it infects
> you with <G>.
>
> Ian Stephen wrote:
> > Look what I just got, with an attachment "patch.exe"
> >
> > Microsoft must like me!
> >
> > (Now if I can only figure out how to get IE to run with Wine maybe I can
> > use this patch ;-)
> >
> > <pasted email>
> >
> >
> >      From:
> > Microsoft
> > <security at microsoft.com>
> >        To:
> > ianstepn at shaw.ca
> >   Subject:
> > Use this
> > patch
> > immediately
> > !
> >      Date:
> > Sun, 24 Aug
> > 2003
> > 11:30:35
> > -0600 (MDT)
> >
> > Dear friend , use this Internet Explorer patch now!
> > There are dangerous virus in the Internet now!
> > More than 500.000 already infected!
> >
> > </pasted email>

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