(Yeah - I know, get an Apple or install Linux. No time to learn a new system - stuck with XP.)
The last paragraph in the article offers a website with a free download of an IM Detector.
"IMLogic runs the IM Threat Center, a site that, in cooperation with anti-virus vendors including Symantec and Sophos, has been listing emerging IM and P2P exploits since December, 2004. The company also offers a free IM threat analyzer, called IM Detector Pro, for download from its site."
oops - forgot the link to the IM Detector website.
http://www.imlogic.com/products/im_detectorpro.asp
There ya go - let me know if anyone trys it and it's any good.
Run AMSN instead -> http://amsn.sourceforge.net/
Crapppppppppp! My kid is home for spring break bump.
PING.
Yeah, the legal system is too good for them. I wouldn't be upset with a little street justice.
It's like someone tries to break into your home, so you install a security system. They come back, you add more security. They come back, you add even more security.
At some point you just want to beat the crap out of them.
Just sent my son an IM telling him not to click on links... and provided a link to the warning site.
This will be interesting to see how he reacts.
bump to do later this PM. Thanks for the information
Migrating to Mac takes a lot less time that continually dealing with Microsoft viruses, worms and spyware. Windows is the ultimate time waster.
UH OH.
Does that mean if 'you' have downloaded the spybot 'detection program', that 'you' have downloaded a worm/virus/bug/etc???
MSN Virus ping
Some of us have similar situations, and don't have the luxury of ditching Windows. After last July's nasty hijacker, I tried Mandrake 9... until the wife-unit turned on me. She uses Win2K at work and brings piles of it home. That, plus hardware problems, made it just not worth it.
LVM
Install an antivirus program or better yet, an internet security suite; keep it up to date using the auto update feature; and configure it to scan instant messages, as well as every file you open. I can't guarantee that you will never get a virus, but you will have to work pretty hard to get one.
Of course if we all went out and brought an Apple or used Linux and Firefox, then we would be immune to viruses, at least until Apple, Linux, and Firefox capture enough market share to make writing viruses for those OS's and applications worth the effort. I guess that's one of the really good things about marketing a product that relatively few people want or use or even know or care about.
I use Trillian for all of my IM programs. I wonder if it will block this from happening....
bump
Have to go - back in a few hours.
If I missed your post, I'll try to answer it then.
What's the latest on the MS's service pak2 update. Is it working well? I'm installing a new hardrive tomorrow, and will reload everything. Today, without SP2 I'm literally being bombarded, much via the messenger backdoor, I think.
I'll just keep using Trillian, thanks. Much better than running four different IM services.
bttt