Shoutbox

Ok, currently I'm very suspicious about all this fuss about the leaked version which everybody got from the internal site, the retraction by MS, and the rerelease of Messenger 6.2....

Like everybody else, I did download 6.2 when it was first put on the internal site...

Next thing we know, MS retracts this version because there were bugs etc...

So far so good...

Then they did the official release of MSN Messenger 6.2, and I began to wonder:

- First of all, as many have noticed I think, the new 6.2 doesn't have a different build number then the "old" one, it still is 6.2.0133... This is very odd. On every version that MS released or that got leaked there was an update of the buildnumber (like it should).

- Second, I downloaded this new version from various sources (both official as unofficial). I used 3 different browsers with no cache saved what so ever. (furthermore, 1 browser was a freshly new installed one). I downloaded Messenger from a different computer also (which never surfed to any MSN related site, and didn't had Messenger to start with). I also used some download managers. I saved all the files to different names (and directories). I downloaded all the different installers (setup.exe, setupnt.exe setupdl.exe, setup9x.exe).....

The result: Every single file is the same as the old version...

My conclusion: MS never updated/fixed MSN Messenger 6.2.0133

Please proof me wrong:
These are the hashes of the original/unpatched/unskinned "old" msnmsgr.exe (6.2.0133):
MD5: 0cb156820b39708d4a59efcd1a530fbe
MD4: 416b8b5a1d2401ef29e89205b192a72b
SHA1: cfdfabe0674f0a0f57ea3c4dd5683f9b84e5ee07
SHA256: 2f11090227dfc5886cfa8fd62b97ec079430dc28eb2751290f0482e85ba05c97
CRC32: 496c60af
eMule/eDonkey: 416b8b5a1d2401ef29e89205b192a72b

You can check your msnmsgr.exe (original/unpatched/unskinned !!!) with programs like HashCalc or by zipping msnmsgr.exe and read the CRC32 of msnmsgr.exe inside the zip.

PS: It doesn't matter what language you have or what Windows version you have, all the executables are the same.