msn VIRUS

[Ryan]

Anyway to protect one from the MSN virus that spreads?

[deathshadow]

Yeah, use a third party client for MSN chat and disable the one built into windows. If you use pidgen, Trillian or any other third party client you're immune.

Same thing as outlook and IE viruses - to protect yourself from them don't use Outlook or IE.

[Nile]

Trillian always looks suspicious to me... But I don't thing it has anything bad It just has that interface that makes you say: umm... virus!?

[RegDCP]

Real easy. Confirm that it was actually your friend that sent the link before clicking.

[upthevale]

there are a few msn virus protectors knocking around, how good/affective they are im not really sure.

[Mitcho1989]

there is an antivirus script for messenger plus! thats built specifically for msn. ive used it and it does block those links that people send you when they have a virus.

but i find it easier to use common sense on msn instead of an antivirus: i.e. look at the link before clicking. its pretty easy to spot a fake

[upthevale]

i agree with mitcho common sence is all the virus protection you need.

[Cohen]

A wait to protect yourself is to look at the URL link before you click on it - if it looks dodgy, don't visit it!

I get a lot of people with the viruses trying to send them to me - mainly "hey i saw you in this pic, is it you? *link*" and they are from the sort of people that get conned into these sort of things - So you just have to be careful and be smart about what you do on the computer.

[cbuckley]

I found a neat little app to remove MSN viruses today http://msnvirusremoval.com, it is supposed to be the best

[Cohen]

(Mar-16-2010 12:10 AM)cbuckley Wrote:  I found a neat little app to remove MSN viruses today http://msnvirusremoval.com, it is supposed to be the best

Thanks for sharing that, we need to find someone to see if it works.....

Just thinking about it, Ryan, you have a mac, yeah? If you have a mac, i doubt you'll get the virus, i think it is just a PC (Windows) thing.