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:: Sunday, January 22, 2006 ::
MSN Block Checker is spyware Instant Messaging: If you use IM - and who doesn't - there is a thing going around which I encountered for the first time on MSN tonite. It is the MSN block checker. I messaged someone and got an autoresponder message "Did they block you too? Download a free MSN Block Checker http://]www.block-checker.com ". Given everyone loves me, and no one would block me ( heheh), I Googled the message. I didn't intially come up with any hits that made me suspicious, but on the second page of the results ( I do 50 a page), I came up with a Symantec hit. Yeah. It's adware/spyware. Don't download it when a friend sends it to you. Systems affected: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP. It is a low risk, mainly I assume because you have to manually install it. So don't install it.
Carpe Diem
:: Mike Wood 22:36 [+] ::
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