MSN Fighting Messenger Difficulties, Virus

KingFishKingFish
edited October 2004 in Science & Tech
People using Microsoft instant messaging software, MSN Messenger, may have been a mite lonely this weekend, with only a virus to keep them company.
The software giant acknowledged on Monday that it continued to battle a technical glitch that prevented MSN users from logging into the service's instant messaging system for the past three days. The problems, which several users complained about on discussion forums frequented by network administrators, caused several hours of outages on Monday morning. The problems also coincided with emergence of a new computer virus, known as Funner, that spreads using the MSN instant messaging service and tries to direct people to a Web site, www.78p.com. However, security software firm Symantec found no evidence that the virus, which had only spread to a small number of PCs, had caused any disruptions.
Source: ZDNet
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