ScanSafe, in its latest monthly Global Threat Report, reported it blocked 24 new IM threats in February, 54 percent of which affected MSN Messenger compared to 21 percent that affected Yahoo! and 17 percent that affected AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).
Over the past 12 months, MSN Messenger has consistently ranked #1 as the most targeted IM platform. Fifty-three percent of all the IM-based threats blocked by ScanSafe in the past year have affected MSN, compared to 41 percent that affected AIM and 29 percent that affected Yahoo!.
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What one question on Africa or climate change would you ask the Prime Minister?
Prime Minister Tony Blair and MSN Messenger teamed up to take Prime Minister’s Question Time online in a unique competition which gave members of the public the chance to put questions live to the PM.
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Microsoft apparently yanks promos that peddled ’security fix’ through misleading threats.
Banner advertisements for a security application said to report false or inflated threats appeared for at least a few days on Microsoft’s instant messaging (IM) program, prompting warnings from security analysts.
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