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Internet threat-monitoring firm Websense issued an advisory on Wednesday about a fake e-mail that advises users to install a patch to fix a Windows vulnerability highlighted in Microsoft security bulletin MS05-039. To make matters worst, there are also fake iPod invoices being sent out stating that $479.95amount of e-Gold has been deducted from the user's account. Now that is sneaky.

The e-mail could succeed in affecting a lot of user's machines as it exploits users' fears that their systems may be vulnerable. According to Websense country manager Joel Camissar, - "People are still falling for this. It is very easy for a hacker to take advantage of the fear created in the marketplace,".

A sample of the fake iPod invoices with a subject line that says "Track your order" and the e-mail contains the following text:

Dear *e-mail address*,

Please read the following message carefully.

We notify that your order was approved and shipped to you via FedEx 2Day Service, track 792531968828.

The amount of $479.95 USD was recieved from your e-gold account. The details of transaction and specification of chosen product we send you in self-extracting compressed-zip file.

Read it carefully to make sure that there's no mistakes in characteristics of chosen product. We appreciate your choice!

According to the rules, refund must be based on your original method of payment. Any requests to refund using e-gold are not accepted if the payment method was credit card.

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Today’s launch of MailS@fe from Techne-Comm is been touted as the Market's First MS Outlook Integrated Email Indexing and Archiving Solution. Can this be true ? With so many legal regulations abound, companies are finding various ways to archive their daily emails for easier future retrieval in an efficient way. If you want an automated way for this archiving process, then check out MailS@fe from Techne-Comm or else follow the manual way. Pricing for MailS@fe goes for £20 to £35 per mailbox, which is a small price to pay for proving legality.

Some tech specs of MailS@fe from Techne-Comm :

1. It will index and archive emails to a central SQL server database and tagging them into projects, groups and departments categories.
2. Uses the latest Microsoft .NET technology.
3. MailS@fe encrypts and archives every email sent and received to a SQL server.
4. MailS@fe solves the usual quota problems with Exchange and PST files.
5. Powerful search tools to quickly find both current and 'old' e-mails.
6. MailS@fe will automatically capture all of the header information from each email ie Date, Time, From, To, CC, BCC, Subject as well as OCR’ing the email content.

If you are one of those still using Outlook Express instead of full fledged software like Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, then Express Assist is the tool for you to safeguard your emails. Here’s what they say :

Express Assist is the original and the premier Backup and Restore utility for Outlook Express (OE) users. It has features not found in any other Outlook Express backup utility including: Search for and view messages in the backup without restoring; Find and view messages in the backup not currently in Outlook Express; Restore lost messages without losing the current mail folders; Retrieve messages as text or EML (mail) files; Backup and restore IE favorites, cookies and offLine web folders in addition to Outlook Express data; backup and restore OE message rules, mail accounts, and critical registry settings.