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Originally Posted by greencreeper
I'm confused. Do they mean the dodgy messenger thing built into XP, or do they mean MSN, Yahoo and ICQ? If it's the latter, I don't see how it can work - I would have to agree to someone being added to my contacts list, and I can always block them if they start misbehaving.
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From that BBC article, it is clearly the MSNs, AIMs and Yahoo IMs of this world that are 'at risk'. As for how anyone's going to fall for it, there are millions of computer-illiterate computer users out there who would just click 'OK' to the 'do you want this person to have you on their contacts list' dialogue box, rather than worry about understainding what the message actually means. Of the quite vast number of spim attempts made, they will find a worthwhile number of muppets who will just click OK. As for how they guess addresses ... well, seeing as almost everyone I know uses a Hotmail addy as their MSN ID, that's a no-brainer.