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Originally posted by DJeX
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Originally posted by brian
Erm, if you didn't click, and you didn't accept, your safe. :-\
Heh not really, if you reply to his message he can use a Packet sniffer to get your IP, and if you have no firewall or protection of some sort he can get in.
You know, wouldn't it be great if people who didn't know what they were talking about would just shut up? I'm sorry but if I don't know much about a certain subject I don't go ranting about it as if I know everything.
For starters, everything is routed THROUGH the messenger servers UNLESS you have "allow msn messenger to connect directly to your contacts" (though don't know if this option is there anymore) so NO a packet sniffer WILL NOT WORK.
"if you have no firewall or protection of some sort he can get in"
Bullshit. That sentence shows you have no idea how it all works. You can *ONLY* be hacked if
you have a vulnerable piece of software either running on your computer or listening for incoming connections! (by running software I mean like Internet Explorer, which would actually have to be used to visit a website that exploited it!)
And yes vulnerable software is a lot of times components of Windows.
