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trojan included in msgplus??? by niqhsieh on 09-15-2004 at 02:08 AM
A friend of mine told me that msgplus seems to have included a trojan backdoor program.. is this true? she was like " my friend is a computer service engineer who detects some trojan viruses within msgplus program"... but i have been using msgplus for almost one year... ???
RE: trojan included in msgplus??? by RebelSean on 09-15-2004 at 02:12 AM
No. The only thing that comes with Messenger Plus! is the OPTIONAL sponser program. Which is in the setup if you want to install or not...You get the FULL program if you chose not to install the sponser program. The sponser program is only a Toolbar in your web browser...Hope this helps 
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RE: trojan included in msgplus??? by matty on 09-15-2004 at 02:20 AM
quote:Messenger Plus! contains an optional sponsor application that obviously you have a choice of installing. No there is no virus or backdoor trojan in the program. AVG does however detect the sponsor install as a trojan which it is not. Patchou has contacted AVG about it and they didn't seem to eager to fix it. So to clear up your question no Messenger Plus! does not have a backdoor trojan included. Please advise your friend that if he/she is running AVG that it will give off false reports.
Originally posted by niqhsieh
A friend of mine told me that msgplus seems to have included a trojan backdoor program.. is this true? she was like " my friend is a computer service engineer who detects some trojan viruses within msgplus program"... but i have been using msgplus for almost one year... ???
By the way, Welcome to the forums
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