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  • Viruses wiggle into IM chats

    Experts warn a new breed of viruses attacking the increasingly popular instant messaging services may pose a problem for corporate networks.

  • Messenger worm on the loose

    Yet another worm is annoying users of Microsoft's MSN Messenger. Fortunately, this worm includes instructions for its own removal.

  • MSN Messenger outage blamed on 'data centre' issue

    Microsoft said on Tuesday that it had resolved problems that caused a significant outage affecting its MSN Messenger service worldwide.

  • Chatty worm hits MSN Messenger users

    A worm is spreading among MSN Messenger users by fooling them into downloading an infectious file from the Internet, antivirus firms said on Thursday.

  • Fix takes bite out of Messenger bug

    On May 8, eEye Digital Security, the firm that discovered the Code Red worm last summer, reported that the Microsoft MSN Messenger chat client is vulnerable to an ActiveX buffer overflow.

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  • How to stop SPIM abuse

    Abuse of IM can cripple workforce productivity, and even more serious is SPIM -- spam sent through instant messaging -- which is growing like a virus.

  • Why pay for corporate IM?

    Instant messaging was brought into the corporate mainstream from the bottom of the ladder up, so are companies making a mistake if they send their own messages down the ladder?

Reviews (1)

  • Instant messaging--better safe than sorry

    If your employees are using public instant messaging programs, Steven Vaughan-Nichols says to stop them right now. Your network's wide open to security breaches.

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