[/b]It looks like hackers have some unfinished business with software giant Microsoft. For they have targeted the Microsoft Corp.'s popular MSN Web site in Korea and have activated password-stealing software which gave them access to passwords of the users on the site.It was unclear as to how many users had been affected because of this. Analysts believe that this activity continued for upto three days before protective measures were undertaken. This attack is the latest in a series of penetrations into Microsoft's products that continue to plague the company even though it has invested millions of dollars to make its products safer.
MSN Korea hackedAnother reason not to use MSN . Three days! Holy crap. That's pretty bad.[/size][/font]
I agree, I'm concerned about my sister using MSN, does anyone know the risk of catching a nasty virus via MSN?I have set up the system with restricted accounts, I hope it's enough to prevent the virus from spreading even if it does get past MSN and the firewall.
Viruses are a very big problem on the msn network. I keep hearing about them every time both from people and in the newspapers. I would also believe that they monitor the chatting at least with word detection or something similar. May sound paranoid but I don't It's impossible.There are tons of alternatives to MSN, IRC being my favourite though. The big reason msn is so big is just because it was shipped with Windows. Pretty sad actually.
If you used Jabber with an MSN gateway I wonder would it stop the viruses?
