Have you ever got complaints from your MSN Messenger’s friend saying you are sending them SPAM messages or Viruses but you have tried tons of wares scanner, antivirus scanner and to find no virus on your PC at all ? Well, your friends are not accusing you for nothing but its neither your fault also on not trying to stop that because you simply not aware of it and you basically never get your friends’ complaint messages because most of the time “You” sending out those spam is when you are offline and having a sweet dream. Yes, you didn’t read wrongly, you are basically spamming your friends on the contact list after you log off… even when you friend reply you telling you what happen, you will eventually never receive those offline message because “someone else” already receive those for you.
So, what actually happened ? If you try to dig into your memory, you probably recall that you once click on an URL that say you can sign in to check “Who has blocked you in MSN Messenger” and you proceeds to sign in with your Legimate MSN login.. bam.. you give away your Login information to that site and they steal your MSN Login and helps you to online when you are actually in offline… and the nightmare begins. ( More like Nightmares for your friends in your contact list because you never knew you spam them and your friends are frustrated of your spam messages ) I personally have blocked some of my friends because they kept spamming me everyday and not taking actions to solve it.
How do you solve this ? You failed to capture this with any of the antivirus softwares or spywares scanners because it is not a virus or spyware. Surprisingly, the solution is very simple and straight forward. Change and updates your Password for your hotmail. ( MSN Lives uses the same password for your MSN, hotmail, Live Spaces, Messenger ). They will not be able to login to your account to Spam anymore. Do take this seriously, think about this. If they can login to your Messenger to Spam, what can they do with your emails, your blogs, your msn account that kept a lot of your personal stuff. This is a Identity Theft and not just any Virus / Spyware.
So, do yourself a favor and do your friends a favor. If you friend tell you that you are spamming them.. they really meant it and it is time for you to change your password.
[Updated – April 6 2009] – I posted another post on cleaning for the MSN if it is a Virus after all. You visit the post at https://mylovelybluesky.com/2009/04/how-to-stop-your-msn-sending-out-spam-messages-if-it-is-a-virus-after-all/
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ic.. good information.. i always receive those msg from fren..
thanks for sharing this.
i gonna tell my fren. 😀
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I think Spam mail has nothing to do with this. This is more like for the Messenger Spam messages.
Ang Ang, you maybe can try something like this but that depends on how the programmers wrote their software.
– Change your password to temporary.
– Go to the same page (that you had entered your username and password to check who blocked you) and enter with your new temporary password.
– Change back your temporary password to normal password.
Notes : This will work if the programmer will updates that ID with a new password that you gave and not adding another entry of your username + new password.
So, is up to you if you wanna try this.
Hopes this will helps you on getting less daily “love” messages from your friends
This is not really Hack as they only prepared a “fake” service to make you believe and sign in voluntary and provides them your login information. More like a variance of phishing website.
So if you think their pc sot sot, maybe you can ask them to try changing the password.
You are smarter than me leh.. I just figured out this one few days ago. Then Google for this topic and confirmed it. So, helping to spread the words here as still a lot of peoples suffering. ( There are still about 5 peoples in my contact sending me love messages every day )
嗯, 我知道这处理的方式呢…
其实很简单而已呢…
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是很简单，可是很多人不懂得做。我也有曾中过一次，我hubby帮我换掉所有相关的password了，然后他再仔细的对我解说怎样避免再次中招，果然和你这遍文章一模一样。。。 /sweat
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谢谢分享，
下次可以试试看。
我有个MSN户口，几年前SING UP后就没动过了。。但最近我却一直收到从那个户口发来的SPAM MAIL呢。。
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luckily i have never got complaints before….
but i always complain ppl coz my friend’s computer is sot sot one…. /phew
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如果 ang ang 要保留原有的密碼，可否依您所說的實行？
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真的是很好的分享哦~
这个东西困扰我好一阵子了~
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原來是這樣,我要把你這篇link給其他人看才可以,
因為最近我收到很多這樣的信息…實在太多了!
這樣算是hack吧?好過分噢. /blurblur
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原來是這樣,真的讓很多人中招.
謝謝你告知.
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Thanks for the so helpful information, I had included in my own blog and share with more of my friends. /tq
Rina, you are much welcome and I hopes it helps to solve your headache.
谢谢你们的分享呢！
我会告诉朋友的！
谢谢sock peng的指点呢！
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谢谢你们的分享呢！
我会告诉朋友的！
谢谢sock peng的指点呢！
Thank you for your information. I have already changed my password. However, my friend said he still receives spam messages for me. Is there any other way to get rid of it. It’s a bit annoying :*(
I do noted that as one of my another friend also having the new round of spam. This new version is not Password related but rather a spyware / worms that resides in the system. I have not know the easier way that can clean it at the moment ( As myself has never got it LOL ). Sad to say that the known way to clean that at the moment ( Which I aware of ) is to perform a format. ( So, it is a virus after all now )
I posted another item on how to clean it.. not sure if that will work for you or not. You can see the post at Hot to stop your msn sending out SPAM messages. If it is a virus after all.
Thanks,
Simple but perfect sollution.
Cheers, Chris.
The Netherlands
Chris, does it works for you ? i haven’t seen much response to this
Thanks for the tip. I never entered my user/pass anywhere, but it got hijacked. Now most of my online friends have blocked me.. Crap.