So, if I got this and clicked the link but didn’t type any info, how much info/access has the phishsite gotten? Specifically, several friends are receiving the link automatically from me, but I’m not doing anything to send it. Do I need to change my password? Also, how do I get it to stop? Can msn messenger (fine, “windows live messenger”) be completed deleted and reinstalled to correct the problem?

Sounds like you’ll definitely want to change your password. You don’t need to reinstall messenger or anything, because it hasn’t done anything to the files on our computer.

thanks for posting this. I just got this today and then 2 of my friends got it. I quickly changed my password and advised them to do so also. Is that all we really need to do?

Yes, if you were able to change your password then they should no longer have access to your account.

I clicked on the link, but luckily for me some instinct kicked in, because Firefox didn’t pick it up as a phishing site. The IM message came at an odd time, there was no other interaction or text from the other user (no, ‘Hi’ or ‘Hey, Nick, check this out!’). And the site just smelt of phish!

But it had me going – the user, whilst not on my current contact list, is a guy I know and the site I was directed to is based in the same country as he is (this I gleaned from the Flagfox extension).

Then I had a further message today (purporting to be from the same user) asking me to check out [MyCoolThingz.com], where I was being asked to claim a free Xbox360 or PS3 in return for my email address, lol!

I have now informed the user and told him to check out this page and warned him his MSN account may have been compromised.

Ashley: “Sometimes these things happen to the best of us.”

Ummm, no.

One of these days something like this will happen to you, and then you might agree.