Comments on: Multilingual Worm Spreads Over MSN Messenger

By: fever

fever — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:57:09 +0000

took some work to put this together, just wish builders would redirect attention to constructive things. don’t waste your skills on the bad, focus on the good.

By: zupakomputer

zupakomputer — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:59:32 +0000

rrk: is the modem still plugged in or active (if it’s wireless) when the PC is powered off?
Are you sure it’s the same trojan?, it might be something else that’s phished your details and is messaging people from another machine – if you can see where it is installed (on your pc) then remove it & delete it….I’m not sure if this is some kind of rootkit; if it is then you might need to do a bit more than just deleting it cause it would have some means to reinstall itself.

Goodpeople: doesn’t the network block any unauthorised client additions – or if they’re going on by wireless then use MAC filters as well as any encryption keys. I wish my college had more students that could afford laptops, including me,….it’d be a nicer place if it wasn’t such a chav-ridden nightmare. Not that everyone with money is ok, some are just spoiled by their parents, but I think overall it’d be better to up the class somewhat.

By: rrk

rrk — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:16:36 +0000

the virus is messaging my contacts with a nickname i had used last year even when my pc is swithced off!! wtf do i do?

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:56:38 +0000

@J Lion
I think its easy to just ignore the spam or block the people sending out the spam but I think something should be done about regulating messages or increasing awareness for IM infections.

By: J. Lion

J. Lion — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:10:47 +0000

Ignoring the link or file transfer is always the best option if the person is already in your buddy list.

However informing your buddy that he/she has an infected machine often bring a lot of grief and then despair.

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:38:44 +0000

@Pantagruel
I like AIMs system where you can only send a certain # of messages within an allotted amount of time and you need recharge time before you can send large amounts of messages.

@Nobody_Home
Its like saying “you can always hang up on telemarketers or delete the spam”. It would be nice if it was gone.

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:45:40 +0000

@Nobody_Holme

Blocking a MSN user is only possible in retrospect. Usually the spammers will use and discard the used MSN/AIM/whatever chat client account. But than again, I hardly get more than 1 spam message a month trying to convince me either to get some pills for enlargement or some money scheme and they go straight to the bin.

By: Nobody_Holme

Nobody_Holme — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:07:14 +0000

Meh. if you’re competent with computers, theres no need to move to another piece of software, because you can always just /block people.

By: Pantagruel

Pantagruel — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:38:51 +0000

It would be nice if MSN indeed would inplement and ‘spam limiting amount you can send’ routine. But I guess they (MS/MSN that is) is quite happy with the ‘active’ virtual social life some people have (or in the case of an MSN spammer seem to be having).

meebo is a nice one, I have used koolim.com in the past (usually when abroad).

By: eM3rC

eM3rC — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:05:51 +0000

I find that using a program called meebo (www.meebo.com) works the best for me. This site is basically an in browsing chat program which allows all the chatting and none of the files. If someone wants to send a file I have them email it to me (GMail AV and my own make it very very hard to get infected).

Shouldn’t MSN implement some kind of handicap for people trying to send out like 10,000 messages in a few minutes?