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yet another hotmail virus?
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MNS messenger isn't famous for being the most reliable service on the net, but it seems that there is yet another virus doing the rounds. :rolleyes:
It takes the form of telling you that the person you are talking to is inviting you to start a netmeeting or something along those lines. So be warned, don't accept OR decline this, cos you'll download a virus!
I have no idea what this virus does to your computer, does anyone else?
It takes the form of telling you that the person you are talking to is inviting you to start a netmeeting or something along those lines. So be warned, don't accept OR decline this, cos you'll download a virus!
I have no idea what this virus does to your computer, does anyone else?
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I don't think there will be anything visually wrong with this, after all, MSN Messenger uses its own fonts etc. for invitations, so it wouldn't have the same obvious problem that the George Bush, and Pic1234 viruses etc. had.
I had a look around the aforementioned viruses, and all the other ones that were working their way around MSN with a hex editor to find out what kind of viruses they actually were (a simple worm that did pretty much fuck all seemed a little pointless - it turned out to be a trojan as well). While looking about in the code, I also found out that in one of the later ones, the virus was downloaded and opened on your computer without your knowledge, even if you declined the file invitation.
I'm guessing this is probably a trojan as well.
What the fudge is going on?!
What the hell are you doing opening attatchments in spannish written emails from people you don't know anyway?