02-13-2002, 11:27 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Messenger Virus?
So how many of you just got this message sent to you by people on your contact list?
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I've just had seven people send that to me in the past three minutes, and none of them actually typed it in and sent it. Someone has obviously discovered a security hole in Messenger and they're exploiting it. Not good at all!
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02-13-2002, 11:31 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 31
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Jason,
Well, welcome to the world of exploits! I hate all of these problems with AIM, MSN and yada yada... these are ALOT of exploits for MSN messnger and AIM, just becareful and watch for updates and hoope they fix these problems.
- Kevin
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02-13-2002, 11:54 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 135
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I just got one, from Marlof...
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02-14-2002, 12:36 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 21
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Jason - At least I didn't send you one 
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02-14-2002, 12:43 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 18
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I had one from Marlof and two from Beth, it really freaked me out!
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02-14-2002, 01:13 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 633
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Hmmph.
Well I DIDN'T and I'm a little upset.
Might be being over sensitive though.
db
:lol:
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02-14-2002, 01:46 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 243
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It's not a Messenger virus, but an exploit of the document.open() vuln in IE (that's already got a patch out I think...). It just happens that rather than mail it to everyone, the jerks that wrote it used Messenger to get everyone to go to their webpage. They could just as easily (and probably more successfully) use ICQ or AIM.
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02-14-2002, 01:47 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 1,350
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I was freaked! I got one from a not to be mentioned person at MS, I clicked the link, and suddenly I was told by everyone "what's on the page" as if I sent the link.... sigh.
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Here's how the Windows Messenger virus works: When you click the link, a blank web page comes up, which mines all the buddy list information, sends it to another web page, which sends them to a hotmail account and also sends the same virus IMs to all these buddies. These web sites are shutdown and the hotmail account is now closed.
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It is stated that http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...59/default.asp patches this hole.
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02-14-2002, 05:07 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 48
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Glad to see some balance in this thread at least! Other forums are just horrible!
At any rate, MSN is releasing an updated version of the Messenger client, scheduled for tonight. It will also include a fix for this particular issue.
@ http://messenger.msn.com
Cheers,
Paul
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02-14-2002, 06:52 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 114
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