Just copied this from another group. Please Be aware.
Do not down load
Messenger 8!!!
Its a virus posing as messenger 8 and could do extreme harm to your
computer...
How it works!!
Malware authors have produced a virus which poses as a test version the
latest, as yet unreleased, version of MSN Messenger. The Virkel-F
masquerades as "MSN Messenger 8 Working BETA" and is available from a bogus
site as a supposedly leaked early version of the software.
Windows users who download and run the malware (given the name
BETA8WEBINSTALL.EXE by hackers) will fail to get the promised chat client.
Instead their existing MSN Messenger client will start to send download
links to everyone in their contact lists in a bid to encourage others to
become infected. Infected machines will also become clients in a botnet
network of compromised PCs.
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I posted at Community Feedback, to ask if it was true,
and it seems it is.