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Re: mildly ironic issue with Microsoft anti-spam download
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:11:42 GMT
You'd think... - ferg -- Aryeh Goretsky <goretsky () gmail com> wrote: Hello, Microsoft has a new plugin available for reporting spam to Microsoft directly from within Outlook. More information, plus download instructions at: <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53541292-ce94-4c5b-9127-b7d56f11b619&DisplayLang=en> What's strange is that the .MSI file is not signed. It is mildly ironic that Microsoft didn't place the file in an AuthentiCode wrapper. I would think that a tool designed to improve user security would have this. Regards Aryeh Goretsky -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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