So I’m up late, coding away… and my default browser (Chrome) comes to the top and loads a new tab for voicefive.com asking me to take a survey. Immediately I hit my malware scanner, but it turns up nothing. I close the tab, review other tabs I have open that might have initiated the pop-up, and go back to work. In the span of 5 minutes, I had this annoying pop-up splash over my coding work a total of 9 times. By this time I’m furious… I crank up Process Explorer, adjust the highlight settings to maximum delay (so I can catch the culprit) and sit there staring daggers at my screen. It only took a couple seconds to see that it was msnmsgr.exe launching the offending process. Really? Microsoft Live Messenger?
In a mixture of shock and disbelief, I killed msnmsgr.exe and waited… nothing. No pop-ups. Feeling I was being harassed and outright abused by Microsoft Messenger, I filed an abuse report. I wonder if I’ll get a response.
