Alternative MSN clients

[rosedaniels]

My daughter wants to use msn to chat with her friends.
I heard MSn to be a source of trouble, incoming visruses, and so on. I already use Mozilla Firefox as a browser instead of IE.

Does anyone know of alternative Messenger clients to MSN to use in combination with firefox???

[Areontar]

You can use Gaim, its pretty awsome, and not only you can use it with msn, but its also as a ICQ, yahoo messager, aol messenger and other.

This is the one I use and it runs pretty smooth  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'B)\' />

go to http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php and download it for the platform you want

die microsoft DIE!!!!

lol

[Guest]

Microsoft make msn. Do you really think that Microsoft would be pumping viruses through! The viruses come from people sending files through. The trouble has the same chance if you get gaim. [censored]...

[shiftyhelpr]

[quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'Mar 22 2005, 10:48 PM\']Microsoft make msn. Do you really think that Microsoft would be pumping viruses through! The viruses come from people sending files through. The trouble has the same chance if you get gaim. [censored]...

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http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' /> see we got a 3 year old on the fourms. Most virus come from other people yes, like the newist one that came out this week saying

"quick! see this picture - http://virus link trigth here then"
This one was easy to tell it was a virus becasue of the extension name was SCR. Some tru image files can have viruses in them but usally something like norton should be bale to pick those ones out.

The only other MSN Client i use is "Gilly Messenger"

[Guest]

What you're looking for is a Anti-Virus, Trojan, and Spy/Adware solution. You can configure MSN messenger to scan any files that it might recieve before executing it. This is more secure and is also recommended.
As for your little example what your daughter might open in HTTP has nothing to do with MSN Messenger. Just remember to configure everything to be "baby proof" and to be sure of this you should always use counter-applications againt malicious applications. Right now I can't suggest any cause I never have this problem so I have no need to bloat my harddrive with virus removal, trojan removal, spyware, adware, worms, etc cause I watch over all my running applications like a hawk. But if you'd like somewhere to start looking besides Google then I would suggest About.com's page on Anti-Viruses