On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 09:03:06 +0000, "dave @ stejonda"
wrote:

In message , Zizz
writes

M$ never email people security notifications.

They do if you join their security updates mailing-list.

I subscribe to this at work because I am responsible for some MS
servers. The bulletins are digitally signed and always give the
address of the technical articles on the Microsoft website that
describe the problem and fix. Microsoft released a couple of critical
updates last week, including one that affects Windows Scripting on
every version of Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...n/MS03-008.asp
(or http://makeashorterlink.com/?K214223F3 if your newsreader wraps
the long URL.)

Other sources of independent information (independent of the companies
whose software is being fixed, that is) include the new UK Resilience
site at http://www.ukresilience.info/virus.htm, CERT at
http://www.cert.org, and antivirus companies such as Sophos, at
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/, who document many of the
hoaxes and scams that are in circulation.

I'd better mention that I'm just off to the allotment shortly to try
to work out where I'm going to put my potatoes this year! This is
actually a displacement activity as I *should* be working out how I am
going to erect the greenhouse that I've had sitting in pieces in my
yard for the last 18 months - foundations are the problem as I am
reluctant to put down concrete footings on the allotment.
--
Stuart Baldwin
news\at/boxatrix\dot/co\dot/uk