http://www.blogsmonroe.com/consumer/2007/03/explorer-update-plus-porn/ Frauds, scams, recalls & other consumer info Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:07:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.blogsmonroe.com/consumer/2007/03/explorer-update-plus-porn/comment-page-1/#comment-456 Stephanie A Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:13:35 +0000 http://www.blogsmonroe.com/consumer/?p=159#comment-456 There are two ways I generally use to figure out if an email is authentic or not: - Check the priority. For whatever reason the viral emails are marked high priority (a little red exclamation point in Outlook) more so than average emails. - Hover over the link without clicking. The web address direct will appear either right at your mouse icon or in the bottom left hand corner of the desktop. In this case, the address included "man candy" - which I thought was highly unlikely for Microsoft. There are two ways I generally use to figure out if an email is authentic or not:
- Check the priority. For whatever reason the viral emails are marked high priority (a little red exclamation point in Outlook) more so than average emails.
- Hover over the link without clicking. The web address direct will appear either right at your mouse icon or in the bottom left hand corner of the desktop. In this case, the address included “man candy” – which I thought was highly unlikely for Microsoft.

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