Polyglot worm spreads over MSN
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| A namedropping MSN Trojan is doing the rounds through MSN Messenger.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/01/23/polyglot_msn_worm/
Last week they they were found bullying startups so that they choose MSN
Messenger.
Domain name gaffe launches Clearswift clients into e-mail panic
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| And in 2003 someone at Microsoft failed to renew the registration for
| hotmail.co.uk, an oversight that allowed a Linux hacker to scoop it up.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/23/domain_name_snafu/
Owned.
Related:
Trojan horse spreads quickly through Microsoft's IM
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| "This is really growing rapidly," said Lichtman. Six hours after it first
| found the Trojan horse, Aladdin put the total number of assembled bots at
| about 500; three hours later, that had climbed to several thousand. By 12:30
| p.m. EST Monday, the botnet had been built out to 11,000 machines.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;959081077;fp;4194304;fpid;1
Is Microsoft Missing the IM Interoperability Boat?
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| IBM's Lotus Sametime 7.5 instant messaging customers can now
| communicate with users of AIM and Google Talk, and will be able
| to do so with Yahoo Messenger in a matter of weeks.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/is_microsoft_missing_the_im_interop_boat.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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