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O.P. Microsoft: Security Warning POPUP
look at this:
[Image: attachment.php?tid=21409&pid=201099]

and when i click on the first lik.. it brings me to here

... anyone else get this.. it looks fake

.jpg File Attachment: securitywarning.JPG (34.89 KB)
This file has been downloaded 575 time(s).

This post was edited on 02-13-2004 at 10:06 PM by lylesback2.
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RE: Microsoft: Security Warning POPUP
its real....... why not click "Microsoft Corporation" and inspect the certificate??? and that IS the WMP 9 series site
02-13-2004 10:21 PM
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RE: Microsoft: Security Warning POPUP
What site were you on when it told you to download it?
02-15-2004 08:40 AM
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RE: Microsoft: Security Warning POPUP
MP3 is done by the Fraunhofer Institut, but the codec is distributed by Microsoft (and certified by Microsoft)

http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/

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O.P. RE: Microsoft: Security Warning POPUP
i wasn't on any web site, just popped up when i was listening to music... (yes i use MP9 to listen to music.. maybe thats why :P)
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RE: Microsoft: Security Warning POPUP
ya. thats why :P so its fine. just remeber:

u cna ALWAYS verify the security certificate. and it is ALWAYS (well, nearly) accurate.
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i just wasn't to sure.. cause IE6 wasn't even open, so i thought it was a popup
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RE: Microsoft: Security Warning POPUP
WMP uses a sort of IE to access the media and download codecs from time to time, when needed. Nothing else.
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RE: Microsoft: Security Warning POPUP
Unless it's a fake security alert (i wouldn't see why, if the virus can fake the alert it might as well install itself) you know it's real without viewing the certificate because Verisign wouldn't give a certificate to anyone under the name of Microsoft unless it was Microsoft itself...
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RE: Microsoft: Security Warning POPUP
Can your computer play MP3 files? Because if not maybe your comp is begging for the codec
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