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Yesterday I had a visit by a childhood friend, during the visit I wanted to give him an idea of why Flash based web chat services can be inefficient for large number of simultaneous users while chatting. Before I could get into my example, the Userplane chat room I entered sent the following message: It says "Warning! Your PC is at risk of virus and malware attack. Your system requires immediate check! System security will perform a quick and free scan of your PC for viruses and malicious programs." followed by an ok button as shown. Well , my years using computers and warning people of the dangers of trojan horse like messages from web pages prompting users to run scans, quickly told me this was a false message provided by some script embedded into the Userplane room I was in, and triggered by my attempt to send a message into the room. This is really bad news for Userplane, as it means the public rooms on its service have been compromised by malicious code creators and is...