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Important news about the MSN Messenger Beta

On Tuesday 3/29/2005 1 PM (PST) through Thursday 3/31/2005 1 PM (PST) the MSN Messenger team will be conducting important security testing that will impact you and your experience while using MSN Messenger. As most of you are aware, there have been recent virus attacks which attempted to use MSN Messenger as a way to spread harmful code. Over this 48 hour period we will be testing methods by which we can block malicious code from being transferred via MSN Messenger. The security testing will block all hotlinks, Winks and Dynamic Display Pictures from being sent or received. The testing will follow this schedule:

Phase 1:

Starts: Tuesday 3/29/2005 1 PM (PST)

Ends: Wednesday 3/30/2005 1 PM (PST)

Action: All clickable links (hotlinks) will be disabled (Winks and Dynamic Display Pictures enabled)

Phase 2:

Starts: Wednesday 3/30/2005 1 PM (PST)

Ends: Thursday 3/31/2005 1 PM (PST)

Action: All Winks and Dynamic Display Pictures will be disabled (hotlinks are enabled)

We need your help!

During this time we would like all of you to test and file bug reports on the following:

Attempt to circumvent the blocks (try getting a hotlink, Wink or DDP through to your contact)

Report any problems with the user experience

Please title each of these important bugs as follows: "Exploits: <bug title>". This will make it easier for us to identify and respond to them.

Don't file bugs on the fact that hotlinks, Winks or DDP's do not work. That is the intent of this testing. Furthermore, this testing will only affect build 732. Thus, both sender and receiver must be on this build for your bugs to be valid.

If you have any questions please visit the newsgroups and participate in the ongoing discussion about this testing. You may also send mail to [email protected].

Thanks for your your great effort!

MSN Beta Team

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Why should I not post because of that? There are people who actually respect it, and it "sucks" that people are just so ignorant or to not care and get away with it.

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Such is life, if people are willing to break their NDA and post such information there is nothing we should or need to do about that. Neowin isn't here to protect Microsoft's private NDA agreements.

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