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Phantasm66 · #1 02-10-2002

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IE bug allows full MSN Messenger hijack
By Thomas C Greene in Washington
Posted: 09/02/2002 at 22:11 GMT

The recent privacy stuff-up in Messenger "pales in comparison to what can be done if you use MSN Messenger through unpatched IE vulnerabilities," security researchers Tom Gilder and Thor Larholm have discovered.

Among the fun and games one can have with a vulnerable Messenger user are such sports as impersonating the victim and sending spoof messages and spoof e-mail memos to his contacts, and scouring his local drive for interesting files to share around.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24004.html

Time to get yourself to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com I think !!

Vehementi · #2 02-10-2002

Seems like stuff like this happens all the time...

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