{"id":343,"date":"2009-06-18T19:22:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T23:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/archives\/343"},"modified":"2022-06-09T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T01:54:10","slug":"fake-outlook-security-message-snail-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/fake-outlook-security-message-snail-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Outlook Security Message &#038; Snail Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wanted to spread some awareness on a new email going around. This morning I got the lovely email from a &#8216;malware provider&#8217; claiming to be MS. Basically saying, &#8220;Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Outlook \/ Outlook   Express. This update is critical and provides you with the latest   version of the Microsoft Outlook \/ Outlook Express and offers the highest levels   of stability and security.&#8221; First message I got had the &#8216;fix&#8217; attached the other two have links&#8230; <strong>If you get one, don&#8217;t open it. <\/strong>Despite the fact that they do look real they are not &#8211; MS will never send you a link or the actual fix in an email, they will push it via Microsoft Updates. You can read more about it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/blogs\/sophoslabs\/v\/post\/4889\">SophosLabs Blog<\/a>&#160; but main point is to be aware of it and don&#8217;t open it or any others that look like it.<\/p>\n<p>Off of the email topic and on to snail mail topic&#8230; <strong>really snail mail<\/strong>&#8230; you see back in January of 2007 I ordered a drying rack to dry hand washable etc. I watch the tracking progress and was puzzled when it said &#8216;delivered&#8217; and I never got it! So I called the company and they did a search on it and couldn&#8217;t find it either so they sent me a 2nd one. Well today our mail lady showed up and mentioned she had a big package for me. I was really shocked because I haven&#8217;t ordered anything big. She opened up the back of the truck and when I saw it I started wondering if it was the long lost drying rack. Sure enough, I opened up the packing slip and it was shipped January 30, 2007. It arrived today,  2.5 years later&#8230; apparently it was sitting in a back storage room at the post office and the postmaster had someone clean it out this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to spread some awareness on a new email going around. This morning I got the lovely email from a &#8216;malware provider&#8217; claiming to be MS. Basically saying, &#8220;Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Outlook \/ Outlook Express. This update is critical and provides you with the latest version of the Microsoft Outlook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,66],"tags":[18],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burianek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}