Many of you know of the i’m Making a Difference project has been around for a year. Well today Dharmesh Mehta announced on MessengerSays that it has donated $1.3 Million to the various charities associated with the project. As we speak the total has been updated to $1,409,788 Million.
They have also announced that theres still no set limit on donations and are continuing the project now and into the future so this is great news to all that participate and want to make a difference. Remember if you wish to help the cause head over to i’m Making a Difference site.
While the buzz around is the Windows Live Messenger 9 Beta, you must remember that if your considering using it your going to have to go without. Going without I mean, not able to use add-ons such as Stuffplug and Messenger Plus! as neither software are compatible as yet(leaked beta after all!)
Atleast for now Patchou has said compatibility will be expected on the release of Messenger Plus! 4.50, theres no word on when Stuffplug will be. We’ll keep you posted but for now if you love your add-ons, still use Windows Live Messenger 8.5.
Thanks to carvell1 for posting on the forum;
Ever wanted to use Messenger while using mIRC? Well you can with MSN Messenger add-on for mIRC. It comes with some of the usual features you’d expect as well as;
- Notification of users opening chat window(s) with you
- Automatically connect to your account when mIRC starts
- Display Away when your Away on mIRC
- Conversation Logging
And much much more. So if you want to try it out, head over to the MSN Messenger add-on for mIRC site and of course make sure you have mIRC installed to try this baby out!
In what the Messenger Team dubs as the second phase, the forced upgrades for Windows 98, 98SE and ME will be shortly rolled out to the Messenger Network. That means users will be forced to use MSN Messenger 7.0.0820 and more likely, the last version of MSN Messenger for those Windows users unless of course another problem such as this arise. They’ve also commented on the likely third phase which effects clients on which they haven’t said. So for those, expect a forced upgrade soon.
From ZDNet, Exploit code for a “highly critical” vulnerability in MSN Messenger has been posted to a Chinese-language forum, prompting Microsoft to urge all users to immediately migrate to Windows Live Messenger 8.1. The exploit, available here, is caused by an error in the handling of video conversations and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via specially crafted data sent to a user.
Secunia warns that successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the victim accepts the incoming Webcam invitation. “This is under investigation,” a Microsoft spokesman said. “Our investigation so far shows that the latest version, Windows Live Messenger 8.1, is not vulnerable to this issue,” he added, urging Windows Live Messenger 8.0 users to upgrade to Messenger 8.1. “We have encouraged customers to upgrade to Windows Live Messenger 8.1 beginning February 2007,” the spokesman said.
