There was already news about this on mess.be yesterday. But although the ActiveX controls seem to be gone now, spyware is still spreading through Microsoft's banner network .

Whenever you see this banner in Messenger, do not click it, and if it launches any popups or warning, close them.


I saw that one today, here is what happens when you click it:



When downloading the file the virus scanner kicked in:


"Technical" details:


For those who don't know about WinFixer and its variants, read the Wikipedia WinFixer article. If you are infected by this, read http://www.spywareremove.com/removeWinFixer.html .

I wonder how many people that don't have a clue felt for it so far .

EDIT: Digg this http://digg.com/security/Microsoft_is_distributing_Winfixer_malware

Dodgy microsft... let's see what they have to say....

i wonder what sandi will say on her blog
let's take wlm out of the mvp thingo

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Originally posted by Voldemort
wonder what sandi will say on her blog

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Link to sandi's blog please

Coming to thinking of this, it suprises me how fragile certain Microsoft things are...perhaps they should get rid of advirstisements to 'avoid' that problem

Lets hope they cant hack into someone's display picture or anything else and advirtise something else (perhaps inappropriate), and that everything else is secure.

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Originally posted by Nathan
Link to sandi's blog please

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Originally posted by Nagamasa
Lets hope they cant hack into someone's display picture

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Quick note, as we're in the subject: I trust all of you NOT to post anything "stupid" to comment Sandi's blog (or any other blog for that matter). I know most of you sometimes just want to protect Messenger Plus! but history has shown it's better to stay civilized.

I know most of you already know that and in this particular case, there's nothing against Messenger Plus! itself anyway (all the countrary if you read the latest posts). I just want to be sure everybody is crystal clear on that . So, if you post a comment anywhere and you mention Messenger Plus! or this forum, please act like gentlemen! (and demoiselles ).

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Originally posted by MenthiX

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Originally posted by Nathan
Link to sandi's blog please

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http://www.msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/ but she hasn't posted anything about it yet.

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http://digg.com/security/Microsoft_is_distributing_Winfixer_malware