MSN message looks like a phish, smells like a phish – but isn’t

Analysis
Apr 8, 20091 min

Windows Live Messenger (MSN) users got a message asking that they change their e-mail address “as part of a recent system enhancement” to continue to use MSN.

They were prompted to follow a link to a support page – but if you followed the link, you went to an error-message page.

If I got a message like that, I would probably delete it without clicking. If I did happen to click, I’d assume my machine had just gotten infected with some kind of virus.

But it turns out that the whole thing was just a glitch, an honest error on MSN’s part.