No surprises there. It’s already amazing how many organisations can make free with our telecoms. Also, how open they are to intrusions by anyone.<\/p>\n

I woke up yesterday to find that MSN messenger had been receiving and sending messages to other people on my contact list without me having any input into it at all. Nor at least one of the other people on my contact list. Receiving is bad enough, but to see that I had apparently\u00c2\u00a0written\u00c2\u00a0MSN messages when my mouse wasn’t even in the USB port………<\/p>\n

Does this mean that\u00c2\u00a0people can spoof MSN Messenger accounts now?<\/p>\n

I did some investigating on two of the PCS involved and, using SpyBot Search and Destroy (very useful tool), I\u00c2\u00a0found a hidden redirect on one of them. I would post the redirect IP here except I suspect the owner of that PC has no more relation to the process than I have.I will investigate and post results on sci-tech, to follow on from what I wrote as a Newb’s guide to malware. http:\/\/www.sci-tech.co.uk\/mtv1.php<\/a><\/p>\n

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