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Old 12-30-2005, 06:02 PM
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Virus disguises itself as MSN Messenger beta
Last modified: December 27, 2005, 2:01 PM PST
By Stephen Shankland
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A virus masquerading as a new beta version of Microsoft's MSN Messenger has begun circulating, antivirus company F-Secure said on its blog Tuesday.

The virus, which F-Secure calls Virkel.F, comes as a file called BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE that can be downloaded from a Web site. Running the program installs not a new MSN Messenger beta, but rather a virus that sends download links to a computer user's MSN Messenger buddies. The virus falsely labels the link as "MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA."
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"It also connects your machine to a botnet server," F-Secure warned, meaning that a person's computer can be controlled remotely to attack other machines or send spam.
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thanks for that kev.
and 8 will be called WLM (windows live messenger) wich sucks imo, everyone will still call it msn anyway.
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I wouldn't want MSNM8 anyway, I saw a screenshot of it a while ago and it looks awful
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So, get yourself a sports bra.
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Thanks for the warning Kev And I'll have to be getting one of those sports bras....lol
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Is this a virus? http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/
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Any Microsoft updates such as this one, should be safe
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Oh ok i'll download it then Thanks Kev
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