Re: How safe is Microsoft Messenger?

nunya wrote:
David Allan wrote:

My son wants to use Microsoft Messenger, but I've been told by the IT department at my workplace that it's not entirely safe and could leave us open to virus attacks. For these reasons, the company I work for disabled it so that it can't be accessed from the workplace. I confess to having never used it before myself, so I'm not very clued up in this area. I do know that it is a popular amongst youngsters, and so I don't want to seem too harsh by saying 'no' to MS Messenger.
Any advice would be very welcome... DAVID.

Use GAIM instead, it will do most of the "messenger" protocols all at once. http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/index.php

Another one is Miranda IM it uses ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Tlen, Netsend, and more...
License: GPL
Price: $0
Operating system(s): Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP

http://www.download-free-download.com/software/download/Utilities/Messengers/Miranda%20IM%20~%20Mirranda%20im.php

It is not so well known but it works with most of the protocols and it is GPL.
/Anders
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