MSN Messenger Info

[icebox12]

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet but anywhoo...

How long have we all been waiting for Microsoft to increase the limit of contacts MSN Messenger can hold per address? Many months at least, years for some of us.

Well, finally our wish is their command - they have increased the limit to double what it was previously. You will not need to install any newer versions of MSN Messenger for this change to take place - you should be able to add more people immediately.

We can now have 300 contacts on your MSN Messenger List w00tness

I've also been looking out for what Microsoft have also been doing and that is they blocked a whole load of extensions which are:

.ade
.adp
.app
.asp
.bas
.bat
.cer
.chm
.cmd
.com
.cpl
.crt
.csh
.exe
.fxp
.hlp
.hta
.inf
.ins
.isp
.its
.js
.jse
.ksh
.lnk
.mad
.maf
.mag
.mam
.maq
.mar
.mas
.mat
.mau
.mav
.maw
.mda
.mdb
.mde
.mdt
.mdw
.mdz
.msc
.msi
.msp
.mst
.ops
.pcd
.pif
.prf
.prg
.pst
.reg
.scf
.scr
.sct
.shb
.shs .
tmp
.url
.vb
.vbe
.vbs
.vsd
.vsmacros
.vss
.vst
.vsw
.ws
.wsc
.wsf
.wsh

There are probly a lot more but I havn't found any more as of yet. I will add new ones soon as I find out
The best thing is that if you even try and send a file with one of these extensions, your contact will recieve this message:

{your email address} tried to send you a file ({file type}.extension). This file has been blocked because it is potentially unsafe. So we must all praise Microsoft for keeping us even more safe than before Goooooooo Microsoft

[Fingerboots]

Yeah.. Bad thing though, I tried to send my ICT Coursework home and it was blocked. I wasn't too happy

[Dave,]

Oooo thats good and I bet all the blocked extensions is to stop those viruses spreading.

[Lord-OfEngland]

hmmm...i'm really glad you said something...I've always been at the stupid limit of people to have on my list.

[icebox12]

Yeh too bad compressed files like .ZIP and .RAR are not deep scanned

[:.bEx.:]

woo more ppl on mi list at last i ave 3 accounts full of 150 each so now it'll be slightly better for me

[Vause]

wewt 300!!

[Seacat]

Yeah.. Bad thing though, I tried to send my ICT Coursework home and it was blocked. I wasn't too happy

haha same thing happened to me too :p

[icebox12]

Yes true but if you think about it you can easily use another service such as gmail, yahoo mail ect. to send homework. Microsoft want to keep their users safe from infections ect. My own personal opinion is that they are doing a very good job.

If you liked the article I wrote above, you can +rep me for my work :p

[Fingerboots]

300 people, I have about 70.