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New Worm Starts Munching MSN Users

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the day-zero-install-windows-learn-spanish dept.

Kosmik writes "It appears that MSN has been struck by a vindictive new worm, according to security company Panda Software. The worm, acting in the vein of movies like the Ring and FearDotCom, delivers a fateful terror message and then proceeds to disable most of your protection software like anti-virus,firewalls and even your Windows control apps (TaskManager, Regedit). It distributes itself to all your MSN contacts by sending a video called 'Fantasma.'"

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  1. What are you talking about? by SmallFurryCreature · · Score: 5, Insightful
    As far as I read it this doesn't have anything to do with "bad security" just "bad users". You have to download the code and execute it.

    Lots of people complain that P2P is unsafe because it carries virusses and what not. So how come I have never been infected?

    Obvious it is because of my enormous intellect that makes einstein look stupid and think that a 15mb .exe files claiming to be a movie is suspicious.

    Yes granted the recent WMF crap showed us that if you use MS software any file extension is under suspiscion and the design choice by MS to hide the extension by default must rank as one of their most stupid one (then again this is ms, they make so many it is hard to determine wich one was their worsed).

    But GAIM does not protect you from being stupid. Nothing does. Just that if you went through the trouble of installing GAIM on a Non-MS machine, or if you are on a MS-machine deliberatly disabled MSN and installed GAIM, then you are probably not that stupid.

    It ain't GAIM that is keeping you safe, it is your brain. Trust me on this, I been around long enough to know people will do anything to get infected. Just promise them a juicy picture. We have about the same chance of stopping computer infection as we have of stepping Sexually Transmitted Diseases. When Miss Jpeg flirts with you, you don't think of using a condom. (Oh and using a condom isn't enough, deep kissing can do it too. How many of you practising safe sex make sure no fluids whatever are swapped?)

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    You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.

  2. Re:GAIM by cag_ii · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just want to make sure im clear on what your point is. You are suggesting that not being able to transfer files via GAIM is a feature and not a bug?