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Someone hacking my Windows Live Messenger?

Someone hacking my Windows Live Messenger?

Postby phileysmiley » Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:30 am

I think someone may be trying to hack into my Windows Live Messenger. Is this possible?

1) Every so often, my WLM starts pinning my CPU for no apparent reason at 100%. It will hover up and down between 80-100% or so and eventually I have to shut it down.

2) Today, the console suddenly popped up with a dialog box saying "WLM is unable to change your display name at this time" or something like that. I hadn't touched it at all.
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Postby kd1966 » Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:31 am

sounds more like some "freak incident" than anything else.......... but I've not been "hacked" to my knowledge either...................hmmmm
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Postby phileysmiley » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:07 am

OOpsy. I meant Messenger. :oops:
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Postby coreyw2000 » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:09 am

I have had that happen... A reinstall of WLM fixed it.
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Postby Synaptic » Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:35 am

Yes, WLM might say that it could not change your login name if the machine was locked, lost connectivity etc and WLM didn't detect the name change. Also, WLM seems to be a memory hog a lot of the time for no apparent reason... It's probably because all the MSN team are all now doing Vista!
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Postby imnuts » Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:00 am

It does sound like something odd is going on with WLM for you. I would try closing it and restarting. If you keep seeing the same thing, open up command prompt and type in "netstat" to get the current connections your computer is making or has established. You could then look up the domain associated with the IP address(es) that you are connected to. It also shows the port that you are connected over. If it has :msnp after the IP, that should be the MSN connection. :http is a connection to a website, and there are some others. You would also be able to look up what ports are for what protocol. If there is anything you aren't sure of as far as the current connections go, just ask here. Also, if you have a router, I don't see a way someone could actually be "hacking" your account unless they have either figured out your password or found a way through the hardware firewall to mess with your system. In either case, it is somewhat unlikely, but still, a possibiltiy.
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Postby Infinityeye » Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:00 am

Well If WLM is such a memory hogger, I'll stick with 7.5 for some time.

But I do know there were some stupid apps for MSN Messenger, which let someone change all sorts of things by typing in commando's in the conversation with the-beiing-hacked-person. But this was because the being-hacked-person executed a 'so-called picture' (which was actually a .exe program) sended by this hacker (which in my area was mostly of the time some kid from school which though he knew all about hacking (but only knew something about the program)
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