For the last time. That link from Microsoft for the Portuguese SP3 is a bonafide
link and nothing wrong with it except in your Trolling head. Go away and get a life.

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"~BD~" <~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message
news:Q8mdne9Rjo43bVDRnZ2dnUVZ8tGdnZ2d@bt.com...
> Dustin wrote:
>> ~BD~<~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
>> news:9f-dnW86hrldMlDRnZ2dnUVZ8iydnZ2d@bt.com:
>>
>>> Dustin wrote:
>>>> ~BD~<~BD~@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
>>>> news:sMSdnYBB-Lzz_VDRnZ2dnUVZ8uednZ2d@bt.com:
>>>>
>>>>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The file is from MS.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do you *KNOW* that? Serious question regarding that particular
>>>>> link.
>>>>
>>>> You provided the links, moron.
>>>>
>>>>> They do! What better domain to choose to fool folk?!!!
>>>>
>>>> Again, your wasting our time and looking in the wrong places.
>>>>
>>>> your refers and plaguirism has been snipped; YOU need to read AND
>>>> understand the material, not us.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Dustin
>>>
>>> Here is the link in question:
>>>
>>> hxxp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=5b33b5a8-5e
>>> 76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4&displayLang=pt-pt
>>>
>>>
>>> If YOU test it, and YOU say it's clean, I'll believe you.
>>
>> ARGH! It *IS* service pack3 for windows XP- portugese edition.
>>
>>> Your call.
>>
>> Not my call; damnit! BD, educate yourself; quit being obnoxious here.
>
> Dustin,
>
> *Did* you *TEST* it to see if there was anything else *with* it, or just 'go with
> the flow'? I don't care about this for myself, but on behalf of others. I want
> folk to be safe - that's all.
>
> Surely that's not being obnoxious in any way. *YOU* are the expert and *might*
> just determine something which others cannot. If you confirm that you *have* done
> all that you can to double check the link and find nothing, I'll let the matter
> drop. I hope that is fair.
>
> I'm trying to smooth our relationship so bring to your attention another post on
> 24hsh <ndWdnVGMion4TFDRnZ2dnUVZ7oednZ2d@bt.com>
> where your past comments about Uniblue to me have been mentioned. It's quite a
> long thread again now!
>
>
>>> Btw, Aardvark says that putting xx's instead of t's (as taught to me
>>> by David Lipman IIRC) does *not* obfuscate a link. Is he right?
>>
>> It depends on the client, some "newer" clients are deliberately de
>> obfuscating them. Why, I don't know.
>
> The link 'looked' live (blue) in Google Groups (apart from the http:// part, which
> was grey)) and one can click on the blue part and be whisked away to ......
>
> Not Found
>
> The requested URL
> /www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=5b33b5a8-5e76-401f-be08-1e1555d4f3d4&displayLang=pt-pt
> was not found on this server.
>
> The obfuscated link is certainly not 'live' on my iMac!
>
> D.