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I’ve seen a number of emails recently which appear to be from Microsoft with advice about a critical patch you need to install.  

The latest one was titled “Install Critical Update for Microsoft Outlook” regarding patch “officexp-KB910721-FullFile-ENU.exe“

Delete these emails – they’re not legit!   MS would never email you with advice like this as you should be using automatic updates to receive any patches from them.

TIP:

If you hover your mouse over the link in the email – you’ll see that it doesn’t actually link back to Microsoft – instead it links back to a random address that “looks” like Microsoft.  In my example it was linking to a site along the lines of update.microsoft.com.1lfx.mx.com.   If you don’t pay attention – it’s easy to miss the “1lfx.mx.com” and think that this is linking to MS.

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Tags: critical update, phishing, spam

Although I think the fight against spam is a valid one (and never ending), I really think UCEProtect have taken it a step too far.

Their premise is that if your server is on a subnet which has other spam sending servers on it then you should be blocked too?

What?!?

I’ve just had a perfectly good server blocked because someone else with an IP address close to mine sent some spam.  Ridiculous!

What makes it even worse – is that they want to charge 150 Euros to delist – what a scam!

So in the end, I’ve had to move mail to a different IP address which isn’t getting blocked.

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