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For dhaurat. glenn30 and colesheridan

by MarkFlax Forum moderator Dec 28, 2005 10:38PM PST

dhaurat, your post here;
http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6638-0.html?forumID=15&threadID=139029&messageID=1562593
has been deleted.

It was advertising MSN Messenger 8 from a web site that was not an English language web site. The site had popups that my browser blocked. I am suspcious about your post and the web site you advertise.

My thanks to glenn30 and colesheridan who posted in the same thread to state their concerns that that may be a fake message and a fake MSN Messenger version. I'm sorry that your messages were also deleted, but that happened when the first post in the thread was deleted.

I have no knowledge personally of MSN Messenger and I searched Microsoft for details of newer MSN Messenger versions but came up a blank, so I have accepted your posts as authority on this subject.

Thanks again.

Mark

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Thanks for removing that. More...

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 28, 2005 10:51PM PST

There is an alert out for a fake MSN chat client which is nothing more than a trojan. MSN IM users tend to update at any notice of a new version so they seem to fall for this scam.

-> I'll end by noting GAIM is open source without as many security holes.

Bob

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