p2pnet news view | Security:- This is the third email like the one below I’ve had within the last week.

Looks like Microsoft has been chosen as bait by phishers.

Either that, or it’s now spamming people in its own right.

Online crooks have long used authentic-looking, but entirely phony, emails supposedly from eBay’s PayPal, banks of various ilks, and so on, in an effort to trap the unsuspecting.

Below is one of the Microsoft-type missives.

Under it is the code.

Is it real, or only make-believe?

Cheers!

JN

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Latest Critical Updates

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Install Critical Updates with Microsoft Update Microsoft Update makes it easy to install the latest critical updates available for your computer. Download Microsoft Update now to scan your computer and get the latest security updates. You can also read the security bulletins for more details on each of the latest updates.

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<h3>Latest Critical Updates</h3>
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<td><span class=”label”><a href=”xxx.exe”>Install Critical  Updates with Microsoft Update</a>
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<p class=”blurb”>Microsoft Update makes it easy to install the latest critical  updates available for your computer. Download <a href=”xxx.exe”>Microsoft  Update</a> now to scan your computer and get the latest security  updates.</p>
You can also <a href=”http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/update/bulletins/default.mspx”>read  the security bulletins for more details on each of the latest  updates</a>.</td>
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