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Who wouldn't want to see who of their friends has blocked them on a social network or as an instant messaging friend? Absolutely everyone! Acting on this, phishers have wheeled out a new phishing campaign specially targeting curious MSN Messenger users. In a post on the Trend Labs Malware Blog, Trend Micro exper... |
15 September 2009
09:26 GMT |
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Microsoft's instant messaging client turned 10 today, July 22, 2009. It was on July 22, 1999 that the IM client became available to the public, although, at that time, the innovative communication solution was launched under the MSN brand, since Windows Live was yet to go, well, live. 10 years after the launch o... |
22 July 2009
11:42 GMT |
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Come July 22nd, 2009, Microsoft's instant messaging client will celebrate its 10-year anniversary. Now labeled Windows Live Messenger, and having been transitioned under the Windows Live brand, the application was known as MSN Messenger at launch, in the past millennium. The latest migration suffered by the IM c... |
16 June 2009
09:06 GMT |
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A corrupted cache can stop users from signing into Windows Live Messenger 9.0 (2009) with their Live ID accounts. According to Microsoft, the issue is not limited to just the latest iteration of its instant messaging client, as older versions of the software are also affected by the same problem. “Some users se... |
26 January 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Britons are heavy Internet users. As a study conducted by Nielsen Online shows, between June 2007 and May 2008, the average number of minutes spent monthly by the U.K citizens on the Internet surpassed 33 million. The leader, with 2,626 minutes and 7.8% of the market share, is MSN Messenger. The first runner up, gett... |
7 July 2008
09:11 GMT |
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About one month ago, the folks at Panda Labs warned that a new MSN Messenger worm was spotted on the web, searching for vulnerable computers through the popular instant messaging client. The "kissing pig" worm still exists on the web, according to some users, but what's more important is that the majority of ant... |
15 May 2008
04:21 GMT |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the third report concerning MSN Messenger after January 1st. God, this instant messaging application is really dangerous these days, so in case you're one of its users, you should really read this. Roderick Ordoñez of Trend Micro informed today that a new worm ha... |
8 January 2008
04:32 GMT |
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MSN Messenger is once again under attack, as Trend Micro detected one more Windows worm attempting to spread itself through the famous instant messaging application. WORM_IRCBOT.EL may infect Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and Server 2003, having a medium damage potential and a medium distribution potential. The worm c... |
4 January 2008
16:36 GMT |
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MSN Messenger, that popular instant messaging application, is again putting the users at risk due to a dangerous Trojan horse which attempts to deploy additional malware on an infected system. According to eWeek, the Trojan aims to create a huge bot network using the infected computers and use them for more malicious... |
21 November 2007
04:44 GMT |
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On September 12, Microsoft announced a wave of forced upgrades to impact Windows Live Messengers and MSN Messenger users. Due to a security vulnerability in MSN Messenger 6.2, 7.0 and 7.5 and in Windows Live Messenger 8.0, the Redmond company took the decision to migrate all users exposed to risks to MSN Messenger 7.... |
8 October 2007
06:39 GMT |
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In September, Microsoft announced that it was delivering forced upgrades for all Windows Live Messenger users, with little exceptions, due to a security vulnerability in the older versions of its instant messaging client. Essentially, only users that were already running Windows Live Messenger 8.5 beta or 8.1 along w... |
4 October 2007
13:53 GMT |
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Microsoft announced that it will push forced upgrades to Windows Live Messenger 8.1 to all current users of its instant messaging client. The Redmond company argued the necessity of the forced upgrades tying the process to security reasons. A recent vulnerability impacted MSN Messenger 6.2, 7.0 and 7.5 and Windows Li... |
13 September 2007
12:43 GMT |
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The latest release of Windows Live Messenger, build 8.5 is synonymous with the second beta stage for the product and was delivered concomitantly with the unified installer for the Windows Live platform. For users that are not too keen on beta versions, Microsoft is providing (since January) Windows Live Messenger 8.1... |
13 September 2007
04:18 GMT |
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Windows Live Messenger and older versions of the Microsoft instant messaging client from the MSN Messenger lineup will permit an attacker to completely take over your system. A range of the Redmond company's IM client versions are affected by a Video Conversation Buffer Overflow vulnerability, but not 32-bit and... |
12 September 2007
03:16 GMT |
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