Is Messenger that dangerous?
The place I'm working at for the moment stops Messenger in their firewall due to some security reason or other. Is Messenger really that dangerous? I've heard about some kind of trojan virus or other that could affect Messenger, but come on! I tried to configure Messenger to use HTTP proxy but it seems to fail. It's probably turned off in the firewall as well (unless someone out there knows how to get it working).
Anyway, I'm desperate to be able to chat with my old pals, so I'm thinking of rolling my own simple chat program, which uses a chat-server implemented as a web service, and throw the client at my pals... I've been without Messenger for almost 3 months now... must...chat...now...