New worm attacks MSN Messenger as service falters
eWeek | at | by Mike
Another candidate in the growing list of exploits on instant messaging clients and servers arrived in the wild. Called W32.Funner, the worm on Monday circulated to attack on the Windows Messenger platform.
At the same time, Microsoft's MSN Messenger service was unavailable much of the day Monday and several online sites wondered if the worm was implicated in the problems.
Microsoft officials confirmed the outage of its MSN services for most of Monday. A spokeswoman said that following system maintenance over the weekend, MSN "began experiencing some issues with the MSN Messenger service that may have affected customer's ability to log in to the service or exchange IMs."