This trick has been around for awhile, but people are still getting hit by it.

If your MSN Messenger / Windows Live Messenger contact offers you some pics, and sends you a zip file with filename like "imageXX.zip" where "XX" is 2 digit number... DO NOT ACCEPT IT!

Your MSN contact's computer has been infected by MSN Worm and send you the virus without their acknowledgment!

The messages basically means "Hey, here is my pics!". Since the message is sent out by your MSN contact (you trust them!), people will easily get cheated.

You recieve a zip file from your MSN friends as soon as they appeared online. In the zip file, there is an executable file with filename like "imageXX.JPG-www.photobucket.com" (XX is random digit, e.g. image80.JPG-www.photobucket.com).

Most people will think that the ending ".com" is part of the website address. Wrong. The ".com" means "Command", which is a file extension of Windows executable file.

If you run the "imageXX.JPG-www.photobucket.com" file, the MSN Worm will be installed on your computer, and then separate to your MSN contacts and so on...