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Hey, I've been facing a problem lately, I cant see links as a hyperlink, I see them as text.



when I type them it looks fine, but I cant access them in the convo window..

so anyone knows how to fix it?

and I've another question, Is it possible to click in the e-mail icon on the messenger, and access the e-mail by firefox instead of IE?

Firefox is my default explorer

Hello Kabso5,

please read the following article about this issue:
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windows...alicious-worm.aspx

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Originally posted by John Scarrow
A particularly malicious worm (a self-replicating computer virus) is currently trying to spread itself through many of the world's largest instant messaging and social networks, including Windows Live Messenger 2009. We’re very serious about protecting our customers, and are pursuing multiple avenues to help stop its progress. The worm spreads by inserting a link into an IM conversation with a person whose computer is already infected. When someone clicks the link, it opens in a browser, downloads the worm on the recipient’s computer, and then repeats this process.

Most notably, we’ve temporarily turned off active hyperlinks for web addresses sent in IM conversations using Windows Live Messenger 2009. You will still be able to copy a web address and paste it into a browser window if you know it to be safe, but by removing active hyperlinks from Messenger 2009, we’re taking a significant step towards stopping the unintentional spreading of this worm.

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Hope this helps you.

Note: the above message comes from Microsoft.
Messenger Plus! has got nothing to do with this...

So microsoft turned it off?

how did they do that, I didnt update or anything..

I thought the conversation is P2P? isnt it..

So there is isnt a way to risk it and activate they hyperlink?

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and I've another question, Is it possible to click in the e-mail icon on the messenger, and access the e-mail by firefox instead of IE?

Firefox is my default explorer

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Note: MSN 8.5

Its fine with MSN 2009..

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Originally posted by kabso 5
how did they do that, I didnt update or anything..

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server side probably.
i noticed this too, i thought my wlm was malfunctioning

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Originally posted by Chrono

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Originally posted by kabso 5
how did they do that, I didnt update or anything..

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server side probably.
i noticed this too, i thought my wlm was malfunctioning

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lol ye, I reinstall my WLM twice.. tried to repair it

I was like WTF

They should at least warn us or something omg..

So why didn't they just block messages containing the bad link (you know, like the stupid filter that blocks messages containing "download.php")? Are there many links that link to the virus?

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Originally posted by Mike
So why didn't they just block messages containing the bad link (you know, like the stupid filter that blocks messages containing "download.php")? Are there many links that link to the virus?

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There are extremely many links being send which lead to malware and other shit (think of all those "I saw your picture here" stuff which is around since years). Hence they introduced this method of relay linking some while ago so they can filter out those bad links in a pro-active way (by disabling hotlinking for those links).

But only now, there seems to be a realy bad thing going around which made them disable this direct hotlinking (that is the active clickable hyperlinks) all together since they haven't found a good solid way to filter out those random worm links and leave the safe links alone (so I've been told though - but it does make some sense).

PS: WLM2011 works in a slithly different way in this regards, so it isn't effected in that links are still clickable, but you'll get a warning in your browser from the Smartscreen filtering.

Although it may seem very annoying, such a protection method is actually a very effective way against the still increasing threat of IM malware/worms/virusses. Most IM malware spreads exactly because people still click without thinking on active links nomatter how they look like.

But, yeah, in certain cases it is extremely annoying and might even brake the links, especially for 'power' users, but those are a minority actually. And as with so many things: the majority dictate the rules.

PS: kabso 5, no, Messenger conversations have never been P2P, they always go thru Messenger's servers.

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Originally posted by Mike
So why didn't they just block messages containing the bad link (you know, like the stupid filter that blocks messages containing "download.php")? Are there many links that link to the virus?

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I think URL shorteners can technically have any address, so it's harder to block specifc content.

Wow hadn't even noticed this.  Fingers crossed it gets re-enabled soon