The Messenger team have gone crazy with security now. They have entered a huge paranoid state which requires sloppy programming to prevent viruses spreading across the Messenger network. They have blocked all URLs containing the popular .info domain.

This is their response to the vast amount of viruses spreading using URLs containing '.info'. However, instead of blocking domains by a case by case basis, Microsoft has blocked millions of useful webpages by suggesting that all .info domains are dangerous! This is a typical example of sloppy, rushed programming.

I find this surprising after an article got some attention about Microsoft already censoring messages containing .pif, download.php or staff.php, but this is really pushing it. I wonder whose decision it was to block all .info domains being sent over Messenger?

This paranoid attitude to scanning messages on both the client and server side is also causing Messenger to act slow and even freeze up! There must be some real poor programmers developing Messenger and I have no idea why Microsoft has done nothing about this.

>> Source: mess.be