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Originally posted by Menthix
Would be interesting to hear what they have to say about the Pirate Bay block though.

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http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-admits-to-bl...links-on-messenger

The statement, from an unnamed Microsoft spokesperson, says that Windows Live Messenger has been able to block some links from being accessed in its messages for some time and that URLs linking to the Pirate Bay web site have been identified as containing spam or other online threats by the company. Below is the official statement from Microsoft in full:

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Windows Live Messenger is set up to help ensure customers receive IMs only from people whose IMs are welcome and has long had the capability to block certain content from being transmitted in an effort to protect our customers. Before anyone can send customers an IM, those customers must first agree to add the sender to their Contact list; this helps protect customers from unwanted IMs from strangers and from annoyances such as spam and spim (spam via IM).

In addition, we use SmartScreen technology to protect our customers from malicious and unwanted content including phishing, malware and spam. We block instant messages if they contain malicious or spam URLs based on intelligence algorithms, third-party sources, and/or user complaints. Pirate Bay URLs were flagged by one or more of these and were consequently blocked.

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