

When I asked Microsoft whether they'd heard from Panda or if the hundreds of thousands of sites were hacked from a patched or unpatched flaw in IIS, a spokesman for the company didn't offer much more information.Īccording to Finnish anti-virus maker F-Secure, the number of hacked Web pages serving up malicious software from this attack may be closer to half a million. On Thursday, Spanish anti-virus vendor Panda Security said that it had alerted Microsoft that a flaw IIS was the cause of all the break-ins. In an alert issued last week, Microsoft said it was investigating reports of an unpatched flaw in IIS servers, but at the time it noted that it wasn't aware of anyone trying to exploit that particular weakness. The attackers appear to be breaking into the sites with the help of a security vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) Web servers. government - have been hacked recently and seeded with code that tries to exploit security flaws in Microsoft Windows to install malicious software on visitors' machines.

Hundreds of thousands of Web sites - including several at the United Nations and in the U.K. * Group member can change their nickname in the groupĪt present there are more than three million users and 500,000 Messenger groups have been created. * Group manager can set an administrator to help manage group * Group manager can change group name and display picture * Each Messenger Group can have 900 members at most Now if you have a Windows Live ID, then go to Messenger Group website () to create your own Messenger Group.


You can create a group for a team, a department or a company to chat online together. Messenger Group makes a group of people connecting closer, no matter whether they are on your Messenger contact list. Maybe you think that Windows Live Messenger supports multi-conversation, but this multi-conversation is temporary, will be dismissed with the finish of conversation.Ĭompared with multi-conversation, Messenger Group is an existing group with each member in, members can talk together at any time without creating a temporary multi-conversation. Messenger Group, developed with Windows Live Messenger platform, is a service for a group of Messenger users chatting together in real time.
