email to my contact and asked

[robel33]

I sent an email to my contact and asked him if he had originated these
2
IM's. His answer was that he had not, and that many of his other
contacts had reported the same thing happening to them. He suspects
either he has a virus which is exploiting his Messenger account, or
someone has hacked into his account and is using it.

 

[mbs1566]

The exact same thing happened to me this morning. I had an IM from my
husband and like a dummy clicked on it. Well I soon figured out I was
spammed. It sent the same message to my sister and now she is having the
same problems, getting spammed and MSN signing onto "another computer".
There is a virus or hacker out there and this needs to be plugged up NOW!
How do we contact MS to get this stopped?

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

These things have existed for nearly a decade. It's not new.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation

 

[Louise]

Jonathan,

Thank you for pointing out that these things have been around for nearly a
decade, it is something that i have only experienced over the last couple of
months where my contacts have been getting links to distastful websites which
as being female i am not pleased at all with. I have been an msn user for
years now and never had this happen before. Can you confirm to me that i
have to accept this as the 'norm'? Or do i have to delete my existing
account with msn?

Regards