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February 11, 2005 3:44 PM PST
Microsoft forces IM upgrades
Microsoft on Friday forced its millions of MSN Messenger users to download a new version of the software to plug a vulnerability discovered earlier this week. The mandatory upgrade began early Friday morning after a security company posted a how-to guide describing how the vulnerability can attack computers. MSN Messenger users were then greeted with a notice to upgrade before they could open their instant messaging clients.
The moves come after Microsoft on Tuesday released a series of software patches to plug a series of "critical" weaknesses in a handful of products including Office XP, Internet Explorer 6, Windows Media Player and MSN Messenger. Microsoft was planning on asking Messenger users to upgrade over a longer period of time, but once the security posting went public the company decided to upgrade all users at once, a company representative said.
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- We are beginning to see it.....
- MS is starting to demand complete unilateral control.
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- security or trojan horse?
- I got this update and in the process Microsoft set all of my default browser pages to MSN and installed an MSN toolbar. Is this the security failure - I wasn't using MSN enough?!
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