You don’t want to download MSN Messenger beta 8
December 27th, 2005 by 
Patrick S
There is no MSN Messenger 8 yet. Not in public beta anyway.
However, there’s a new virus going around pretending to be “MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA”.
There’s two ways to catch it. First, by downloading it from a fake site where it has been supposedly “leaked”:
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If you download and run BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE from that site, you won’t get a new chat client. Instead, your existing MSN Messenger will start to send download links to everyone in your contact list. It also connects your machine to a botnet server.
The download link always contains the recipients’ email address. For example, if you’d have a friend with email address huuhaa@foobar.com, he would get a download link like msgrbeta8.com/im.php?msn=huuhaa@foobar.com:
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7 Comments »
December 31st, 2005 at 9:32 pm
vytiui
May 26th, 2006 at 7:53 am
i like the service which msn is giving and i want to download this version
June 3rd, 2006 at 5:26 am
ThxxxX
June 3rd, 2006 at 5:32 am
DOWNLOAD
June 3rd, 2006 at 5:33 am
i like the service which msn is giving and i want to download this version
June 6th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
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June 21st, 2006 at 12:41 pm
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