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9

May

2008

Crash people’s MSN Messenger

By Chewie. Posted in General | Comments

Not sure if this still works, but if you want to have a bit of fun/really piss people off then tell them (say it gives their name cool colours or something) to set their name or status (in some cases just get them to type it into the chat window) to this string… n—a_Á—ay±m—aÁÇáç±Çáß±Çá§ÁaÇáDZOÇá—±Çá§±Çár×ÁÇá+NÇáLáÇá

It buffer overflows messenger causing the user to crash out and not be able to sign back in. Apparently in older versions of MSN it can also crash other chat users who are initiated in a chat session.

Just something random i saw ages ago and see it has started to do the rounds again. Use a third party messenger service such as Adium etc to sign back in and remove offending code.

About the Author:

Chewie is from a mysterious part of the United Kingdom called Up Norf. He has been working in web development and SEO for over ten years, beginning as a developer and moving to SEO in search of the perfect rank. As well as SEO he likes football, beer, girls and gravy - often at the same time.
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  • Lol, lucky for me i use Adium so it won't effect me :)
  • your evil ha ha ha im goin to get you in 7 weeks and at 3 in the morning
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