Slashdot | Microsoft Messenger Virus Hits Reuters IM

Bad news for IM users and especially system admins!

One Response to “Slashdot | Microsoft Messenger Virus Hits Reuters IM”

1. Steve says:

   May 1, 2005 at 5:13 pm

   I find a security breach in an IM program less-than-shocking, and in a Micro$oft Messenger-based IM program NORMAL. We routinely REMOVE Messenger COMPLETELY from the XP computers at the place where I work–if it ain’t there, it ain’t a vunerability, is the way we think. However, the comments about IM in general I find interesting–all the way from “essential” to “counterproductive”. Again, where I work, the IM client is the only thing keeping us from moving away from one piece of software we would really like to dump. As soon as we find a good IM replacement (which, I think, will mean as soon as I teach myself to set up and administer a server for Jabber) we will dump it and improve network administration simplicity 100%. By making it 100% Microsoft, ironically enough…….life is full of these little twists….but if we don’t have IM, we will be drawn and quartered by the users of our network–and I can’t say that I blame them. IM fills a need that is just too great to go unfilled, at least in our organization.