Yesterday, my sister play around with a block checker site, checking which user in your MSN contact list blocked the traffic from you.
Once she type in her user name and password, and suddenly, all of the user in her list receive a meaningless message. Here what I mean is that the message is definitely not written by her. Once I got it, the first idea is that she got a virus. After AVG anti-virus took a very very very … long scanning process, it did not found any suspicious file. When I try to ask my sister what site she had visited before getting this virus-like symptom, she shown me the website.
As you may know, there are many MSN block checker over the Internet. Most of the block checker sites help you to query whether the target user is online or not, ie. if you cannot see him in your online list in MSN, but he is stated online in these checker websites, it means you have been blocked. Sounds not efficient enough, rite? So the block checker site which my sister visited is trying another approach. It asks for the email address and password the user use to login MSN, and the program in its server will contact to MSN server and fetch the contact list, then send a message to each user in the list and see if they can the message. This is what I guess how it works, did not verified yet.
However, before using these block checker application, you need to consider if they are secure and innocent enough. From mess.be, although it may be an old news, most of these websites is collecting email addresses for spam or even worse. Some other like the website my sister browsed, may collect password from the user, even though they claim they are not. So, take the risk when you are going to use it.
How dangerous the world is!
- faq in mess.be
- http://www.get-messenger.com/ (TAKE YOUR RISK WHEN YOU TRY IT)
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