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!
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.
You may have seen the popular MySpace movie, which parodies the basics of MySpace, or even the YouTube movie. But have you seen the MSN movie?
MSN: The Movie parodies some of the basics of MSN Messenger, but with real people. There’s no boring instant message windows showing conversation like you might expect. Instead, it goes creative and has two actors speaking in each scene with captions of what they would be saying online.
I’m not sure what the pop ups part is referring to, but still, it gave me a laugh.
List Cache Deleter allows you to delete list cache files for accounts used with MSN Messenger. This is sometimes needed due to a bug in MSN Messenger which causes it to lose track of the list cache version and sends a blank string to the server as the current cache version, which makes it unable to sign in.