Quote by MQ
I keep getting one when I click on the 'swingers orgy' link at the top of the page.
keep getting one when I click on the 'swingers orgy' link
None of the major anti-virus websites have information about a virus like the one described, except to identify it as a hoax.
Also, the technical aspects of the message are fundamentally flawed. Although it is possible for worms to spread via MSN Messenger, the message implies that the email address itself is a virus. This is not possible. To be infected, some sort of file transfer needs to take place. If Messenger was configured to automatically accept files from a contact list, then it is possible that a virus could be sent by this new and sinister "contact". But even if the virus was sent in this way, the recipient would still have to explicitly open the file before a computer was infected. Again, although it is possible to disguise a link to a malicious webpage in an HTML email so that it "looks" like an email address, the recipient would have to actually click on the link before any virus threat was downloaded.
If this was a real virus, the warning message would more than likely give details of how the actual transfer of the "virus" takes place and advise on how to avoid it. Instead, it states a technical impossibility.
Such hoaxes do nothing more than clutter up the information superhighway. These messages should be deleted without forwarding.
I ermmmm accidently clicked on it....... honest :roll:
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