Pidgin Security ?

Sean Egan seanegan at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 17:38:13 EDT 2007


On 10/15/07, Charles Barcza <kbarcza at blackpanther.hu> wrote:
>
>  Dear Pidgin Developers,
>
>  Today morning an interesting screen appeared spontaneously on my laptop.
>  Actually I use Pidgin 2.2.1. If you have any ideas how does it's happened
> write me an answear.
>  I deleted this version from the 'update' repository while to get clear this
> issue.

It looks like your friend, Syrius, has a worm or something that's
trying to propagate itself to your machine. Since it's definitely
targeting Windows, and probably targeting MSN Live Messenger, you
should be safe.

Syrius, on the other hand, is not.
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