MSN Messenger - account stealing / spoofing

[catzspaz]

Sorry to hear of your trouble! Two pieces of
advice.....one: contact microsoft and explain your
situation. Two: install a spy blocker on your
computer.....I use "spyblocker" and have had wonderful
results from using it. Obviously you have been infected
with some kind of trojan virus. I hope my suggestions
help.
>-----Original Message-----
>Last night my son, 13, told me that he and a friend had
logged on to MSN
>Messenger using his friends account and discovered that
HE (my son) was
>already online. My son then had a conversation with
someone who had
>apparently managed to reset his password and then use
his messenger account,
>read his e-mails and upset his friends with some fairly
nasty messages.
>
>Does anyone have any experience of this, and is there a
fix somewhere or a
>way to prevent this happening? We have all the latest
anti-virus software
>and firewalls but as the account is held (presumably) at
Microsoft I don't
>see what I can do.
>
>Any ideas would be gratefully received as I really don't
want to expose my
>son and his friends to this again.
>
>Many thanks,
>
>
>Adrian
>
>
>.
>

[Adrian]

Thanks Catzspaz and Jonathan.

I did a full virus search of my son's PC and discovered a trojan (now
removed) and a virus called FDoS_MSN.gen which I can't find any reference to
in virus lists. He has also changed his password and is under strict
instruction to keep it secret!

The virus appears to have com from a site called mess.be

Adrian

"catzspaz" > wrote in message
...
> Sorry to hear of your trouble! Two pieces of
> advice.....one: contact microsoft and explain your
> situation. Two: install a spy blocker on your
> computer.....I use "spyblocker" and have had wonderful
> results from using it. Obviously you have been infected
> with some kind of trojan virus. I hope my suggestions
> help.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Last night my son, 13, told me that he and a friend had
> logged on to MSN
> >Messenger using his friends account and discovered that
> HE (my son) was
> >already online. My son then had a conversation with
> someone who had
> >apparently managed to reset his password and then use
> his messenger account,
> >read his e-mails and upset his friends with some fairly
> nasty messages.
> >
> >Does anyone have any experience of this, and is there a
> fix somewhere or a
> >way to prevent this happening? We have all the latest
> anti-virus software
> >and firewalls but as the account is held (presumably) at
> Microsoft I don't
> >see what I can do.
> >
> >Any ideas would be gratefully received as I really don't
> want to expose my
> >son and his friends to this again.
> >
> >Many thanks,
> >
> >
> >Adrian
> >
> >
> >.
> >

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi Adrian,

Mess.be should be (as much as they can) be virus free -- do you have any other particular
details about what exactly could've been downloaded from there that had the virus?
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Adrian" > wrote in message
...
> Thanks Catzspaz and Jonathan.
>
> I did a full virus search of my son's PC and discovered a trojan (now
> removed) and a virus called FDoS_MSN.gen which I can't find any reference to
> in virus lists. He has also changed his password and is under strict
> instruction to keep it secret!
>
> The virus appears to have com from a site called mess.be
>
> Adrian
>
> "catzspaz" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Sorry to hear of your trouble! Two pieces of
> > advice.....one: contact microsoft and explain your
> > situation. Two: install a spy blocker on your
> > computer.....I use "spyblocker" and have had wonderful
> > results from using it. Obviously you have been infected
> > with some kind of trojan virus. I hope my suggestions
> > help.
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >Last night my son, 13, told me that he and a friend had
> > logged on to MSN
> > >Messenger using his friends account and discovered that
> > HE (my son) was
> > >already online. My son then had a conversation with
> > someone who had
> > >apparently managed to reset his password and then use
> > his messenger account,
> > >read his e-mails and upset his friends with some fairly
> > nasty messages.
> > >
> > >Does anyone have any experience of this, and is there a
> > fix somewhere or a
> > >way to prevent this happening? We have all the latest
> > anti-virus software
> > >and firewalls but as the account is held (presumably) at
> > Microsoft I don't
> > >see what I can do.
> > >
> > >Any ideas would be gratefully received as I really don't
> > want to expose my
> > >son and his friends to this again.
> > >
> > >Many thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > >Adrian
> > >
> > >
> > >.
> > >
>
>