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    There you go, Momiji. We clicked!

    Okay, I guess I can try reinstalling MSN and changing my password, but I'm not changing my address.
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    Okay then, and if it happens again, I'll reinstall Trillian and change my password as well.

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    I installed Pigin and that didn't help any. I didn't change my password though.
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    Okay, now I need help.

    "Cim" is trying to send me a link, and I haven't talked to Cim in a while!



    What did you do to solve it? This appeared when I was napping sometime between 2:00 and 3:30.

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    The results from googling about these websites are scarce and mostly German, but this appears to be a phishing scam and appears to be avoidable by changing your Live account password on the Windows Live website or wherever it is you change that password.

    It would explain people being logged out automatically and people appearing online when they're actually now, as some machine appears to be logging in from another location and sending these messages. The best piece of advice is never to click links that get spammed to you over MSN, especially if they're suffixed by ":1234" or some other number.

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    But as long as I DON'T click, I'm okay? Or is my computer already infected?

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    Yes, as long as you don't click you should be okay. The person who you are receiving messages from is the person infected.

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    Well, the first one looked innocent enough (I don't have a screenshot of that one though), so I did end up clicking it, but then it was asking for my username/password stuff so I closed it as soon as it opened and ran a full scan as soon as I did.

    I should have used more common sense to think that Leeza would never initiate a conversation with me, since it's usually me who starts them, let along starting a conversation with a random link.

    I guess we'll find out if re-installing worked tomorrow morning.

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    Okay, I uninstalled and then reinstalled Messenger and I changed my password so hopefully you won't be receiving a link from me tomorrow, Momiji.
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    Time will tell.

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    A change of password is all it needs, no need to reinstall.
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    Press Ctrl + Alt + Del (Start Task Manager if a screen comes up with many options) and go to Processes. Screenshot the drop-down list and post it here, would hurt doing the services tab too

    Also you need to show processes from all users.
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    I get those from my friend Sarah. It's pretty harmless, as long as you don't click.


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    These things are almost always caused by someone or something getting a hold of your login information. You might have been tricked to enter your MSN login info at a fake site, and then they've stored it and now use it to log on to the MSN network, send a message, and then log right back out. Repeat until you change the password.
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    Well, Momiji isn't complaining yet so I guess changing my password worked.
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