Stop Microsoft
All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: RaZoR1394 on 5 June 2005, 00:41
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MSN Korea hacked (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/3073.html)
[/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.
Another reason not to use MSN :). Three days! Holy crap. That's pretty bad.
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GO Jabber...
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MSN Korea hacked (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/3073.html)
Another reason not to use MSN :). Three days! Holy crap. That's pretty bad.
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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.
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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.
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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.
If you used Jabber with an MSN gateway I wonder would it stop the viruses?
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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.
There's no point she's locked into using MSN as her friends use it and there's no way she'll be able to persuade them to change.
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If you used Jabber with an MSN gateway I wonder would it stop the viruses?
I'd guess a no. All file transfer is blocked. How do the viri get through MSN? The text???
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I think Exe or Scr (screensaver) files are very common. Then there are many **** who throw up links that lead to web sites with activeX viruses (explorer) or javascript viruses etc.
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does anyone have a screen shot they can post?
MrX
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Javascript viri??? And as for the .scr and .exe, those can only be sent by file transfer, neh? And then Jabber is out of range for them.
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i tryed to send a prog i made to somone on msn. was a prog for an assignment, and it damn blocked it. so i renamed it to phonetar.fuckumsn. it sent, then i tryed to send it to somone else with the same name and it was blocked.