iis security: Today while using the internet with Internet Explorer, I
recieved an unusual pop-up from http://winpatch.net/. I
am not familiar with this company, and it requested that
you download a security patch for Windows XP. I guess I
just felt it was an unusual pop-up, and was wondering if

Hello,
I haven't heard about it- but you could ping one of the security newsgroups
regarding this issue. And you will want to go to the Windows Update site to
confirm if your machine really needs that patch and install it from there.
Hope this helps!
Thanks,
Yogita Manghnani
Microsoft Developer Support
Internet Information Server

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I just got a pop up while using compuserve. It said from MSOFT to
AOLUSER & sd that my system was affected by buffer over-run, go to
Winpatch.net to download patch. I did not trust this message & I have
not downloaded the patch-Justin


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