i delede plus and the mysearchnow adversite program, but after month, IT COMES BACK!!! can someone help?!?!?

It can't come back by itself, you must have installed another program or something. Please check How to uninstall ad-ware/sponsor.

ok here is ur ansver: I deledet sponsor, and it was fine one week. then i didnt use comp for a week and then it just come back. also its so annoying...

programs dont just "come back" after uninstallation. Maybe the adware u got is not from messenger plus!.

Anyway, reinstall plus! with sponsor and then uninstall, that should help

Give this a go...it will safely uninstall the Plus! and other LOP sponsors...if it doesn't work the adware you've got isn't from Plus!
http://lop.com/new_uninstall.exe

software does not reinstall, unless there is a program to reinstall it. its phissicly impossible for a program that dosent exist anymore (you uninstalled it) to tell the computer to install itself again.

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Originally posted by John4300
i delede plus and the mysearchnow adversite program, but after month, IT COMES BACK!!! can someone help?!?!?

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I have exactly the same problem since my teenage son downloaded messenger plus anc clicked "Accept" to everything!  We have been plagued by this adware sticking search bars on explorer and shortcuts on the desktop.  No problem before messenger plus installed. 

I have tried uninstalling messenger plus, reinstalling without the sponser.  It seems to have worked for a few days or week and then it comes back.  Its a real pain.  No other programs apart from messenger plus installed.  Going to other help forums reveals lots of people with the same complaint about the same adware which is impossible to get rid of -  many complaints related to Messenger plus.

What particular adware should we be looking for on the pc in order to know for sure whether it is messenger plus related - ie what .exe files, processes, or other files should we search for to discover what it is we are dealing with?

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What particular adware should we be looking for on the pc in order to know for sure whether it is messenger plus related - ie what .exe files, processes, or other files should we search for to discover what it is we are dealing with?

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Originally posted by Anubis
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could you all just say what files MySearchNow contains so i can manually remowe it? im also pretty annoyed... if i reinstall plus without sponsor, the sponsor comes still

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Originally posted by John4300
im also pretty annoyed... if i reinstall plus without sponsor, the sponsor comes still

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Darn right... it IS annoying because these people just don't seem to understand...you can tell them a hundred times that you have un installed messenger, and tried their little uninstall programs, but then they just keep telling you to do the same thing!

Why not just tell us how to manually delete it?  Answer:  Either they have no clue how, or they don't tell you on purpose because they want you be a prisoner of Lop.com!

As I have already said...  "How many different ways can I tell you... THE UNINSTALL PROGRAMS DO NOT WORK..  I tried using their uninstall programs and installing and uninstalling messenger just like you guys say too... still the ad bar comes back!  Furthermore, for those who mistakenly install the adware, and use adaware or similar utilities because they have no idea how it got there, it leaves us in quite a bind, doesn't it?  How the hell am i supposed to get this thing off??????"

If you use Ad aware to try to remove lop you make it impossible to remove with those uninstall programs and by uninstalling the messenger.  What a load of crap.  I just might make my own website dedicated to how big a load of bull this is.

Using Adaware removes some of the files installed by the sponsor, but not all of them. The problem arrises when the uninstaller looks for the files it expects and it cant find them it thinks the sponsor program has been un-installed. It's a saftey measure so that in the event another program uses or installs a similar file with the same name and the sponsor isnt installed it wont damage the other program.


IF YOU ARE SURE IT IS MESSENGER PLUS:

Re-install Messenger plus WITH the sponsor program. Restore it back to the adware enabled version.

Now, Un-install the program through the "Add/Remove Programs" panel in your windows controll panel.


This will remove any adware associated with messenger plus. If there is still adware left after that process, Look back at the websites you've visited recently, programs you've installed, etc, and try to find where it came from. It it's still there after a proper un-installation of Messenger plus. It's not comming from Messenger Plus.


On behalf of the forum staff, We're sorry that your having troubles with Adware/Spyware, but we can only equiped to help you with the messenger plus related adware.

I have used Lop's uninstall programs and tried adding and removing other Lop software, even though I never installed any.  The fact is simply that if you use ad-aware or spybot, etc after installing Messenger Plus to get rid of the adware, you won't be able to remove it.  I wish I could, but it comes back every time I remove it with Lop's uninstallers or by installing Messenger Plus.

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As I have already said...  "How many different ways can I tell you... THE UNINSTALL PROGRAMS DO NOT WORK..  I tried using their uninstall programs and installing and uninstalling messenger just like you guys say too... still the ad bar comes back!  Furthermore, for those who mistakenly install the adware, and use adaware or similar utilities because they have no idea how it got there, it leaves us in quite a bind, doesn't it?  How the hell am i supposed to get this thing off??????"

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OF COURSE i was uninstalling messenger plus!

He was just making sure. At this point I think that Patchou should take a look at your situation and reply acordingly.

Not using Adaware is not something we say justfor the fun of it. When you want to uninstall a software, do you use a third party to do so? why would youdo it for legitimate adware programs then?

Disable any anti-adware program you may be running, reinstalling Messenger Plus! with the sponsor, launch its uninstaller from Add/Remove program and when asked, anter the 7 digits confirmation code. The sponsor will then be removed entirely and that's guarenteed. I cannot be help responsible for things other software such as Adaware do on your system while pretending to help you.

Tell you what.. I'll try totally un installing ad aware, spybot, AVG antivirus, zone alarm, and then un install messenger PLUS.  Because I've already tried everything else.  I'll let you know what happens.  As it is I've been trying to un-install this for the last hour and a half.  And, by the way, I only used Spybot to try to get rid of the toolbar because I had no idea where it came from.  I finally figured out it was the Messenger plus my wife installed.

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Darn right... it IS annoying because these people just don't seem to understand...you can tell them a hundred times that you have un installed messenger, and tried their little uninstall programs, but then they just keep telling you to do the same thing!

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There is a very good reason for them saying that...

IF. You uninstall all the stuff, the WAY THAT PATCHOU HAS SAID, and it's still there, it isn't from Plus!  End of story.  You seem to get annoyed at people saying the same things over and over, then you just want to ignore what they are saying, over and over.

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2:30 am and doing what patchou still doesn't work.

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Originally posted by whippingboy
2:30 am and doing what patchou still doesn't work.

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Originally posted by whippingboy
LISTEN HERE:  I have been to Lop's website, and have searched in my ad/remove directory for every one of their programs... and there are NONE there.  Period.  Also my wife recently installed messenger plus so don't get smart with me young man!  I have been working on this for weeks and hours today; I have now un-installed AVG antivirus, ad-aware, spybot, and Zone alarm!  After that I re installed messenger plus with the sponser just like he said, then went to add/remove menue and removed it.  Restart system and it still comes back every time! 

Also, It took me days to figure out this thing came from messenger plus so don't even try to say it's MY fault for using adware removal tools!  The thing just simply will not go away and it's driving me crazy!

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The final erroneous assumption I see is the assumption that AdAware somehow 'damaged' things.  Don't believe that for a minute.  AdAware is a very reputable programme; it is only in *some* forums that complaints are made about its veracity, safety and effectiveness.

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My original response to you, posted more than 24 hours ago, was "moved" (aka split) into a 'logged-in-members-only-forum' called 'Testing and Trashing'.

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Therefore I suspect that you did not see, or receive any benefit from, my original recommendation and were left to waste time with steps that obviously aren't working. 

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I will now repeat my original advice, albeit without using identical words, and with a few additions.  It will be interesting to see if *this* reply is also removed (cough, sorry, moved).

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The first erroneous assumption that I see in this thread is that you may be infected with a MP version of lop.com.

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The second erroneous assumption I see is that the infamous malware lop.com could only have come from Messenger Plus!

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The final erroneous assumption I see is the assumption that AdAware somehow 'damaged' things.  Don't believe that for a minute.  AdAware is a very reputable programme; it is only in *some* forums that complaints are made about its veracity, safety and effectiveness.

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holy sh** its back AGAIN and i have to reinstall plus and unistall it with sponsor AGAIN!!! duhhhh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE just give the files so i can get rid of it.... OR are plus on for money and it dont care what MySearchNow does or what it contains???  -.-

ADAWARE WILL DAMAGE THE SPONSER PROGRAM
AdAware removes most parts of the messenger plus sponser, but it dosent remove all of it. Therefore, when you try to uninstall the sponser THE PROPER WAY, there is major chunks of the sponser missing, so the "real" uninstaller decides that the program is corruprted and WILL NOT uninstall the rest of the sponser. that is why you SHOULD NOT use AdAware to remove the sponser.

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Originally posted by John4300
holy sh** its back AGAIN and i have to reinstall plus and unistall it with sponsor AGAIN!!! duhhhh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE just give the files so i can get rid of it.... OR are plus on for money and it dont care what MySearchNow does or what it contains???  -.-

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My original response to you, posted more than 24 hours ago, was "moved" (aka split) into a 'logged-in-members-only-forum' called 'Testing and Trashing'.

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testing and trashing is considered SPAM/OFFTOPIC. so, to avoid bad reputation just cause it's there (yes people gave a bad reputation because of that), it's made members-only.

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Therefore I suspect that you did not see, or receive any benefit from, my original recommendation and were left to waste time with steps that obviously aren't working. 

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you make me laugh :D if it worked for hundreds of users (i should really log #msgplus.fr on IRC), and now you're saying it doesn't work?

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I will now repeat my original advice, albeit without using identical words, and with a few additions.  It will be interesting to see if *this* reply is also removed (cough, sorry, moved).

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lol. it should be, as it gives all false info.

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The first erroneous assumption that I see in this thread is that you may be infected with a MP version of lop.com.

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if the solution doesn't work, it's not MP, right?

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The second erroneous assumption I see is that the infamous malware lop.com could only have come from Messenger Plus!

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where did you see that?

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The final erroneous assumption I see is the assumption that AdAware somehow 'damaged' things.  Don't believe that for a minute.  AdAware is a very reputable programme; it is only in *some* forums that complaints are made about its veracity, safety and effectiveness.

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lol. who are you to say that? a programmer? LOL.

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Please everyone, cool down a little.

whippingboy, I don't think you posted an answer to my last post... can you confirm that you did reinstall Plus! with its sponsor and uninstalled it after that by entering the confirmation code in the window prompted by the uninstaller? let's just forget about all the assumptions and go back to the basis for one minute. I'll do my best to help you remove the sponsor that comes from Messenger Plus! but keep in mind that more than half of the 100,000 people who install Plus! everyday insstall it without the sponsor and your wife could be in it so you may never have had my sponsor in the first place. If you do have it, I asure you that a simple uninstallation will get rid of it, forever.

I'll wait for your news, meanwhile, please everyone, don't start another flame war, it's not worth anyone's time .

Yes Patchou, I did exactly like you said to last night.  I was very careful to follow your instructions and was trying very late into the night.  I am also actively trying to find all of lop's names to see if any of it's programs are in my ad/remove programs directory.  So far I have seen none, but am asking them for a complete list of all possible programs they are afffiliated with... the ones they have mentioned in their website have not been found in my add/remove directory so far, and I was very careful to check each one.  So I still have this problem every time I re install just like you say, exactly like you say, and then re-boot because the program just re installs itself.

Sam Spade (and all others who come from http://forum.aumha.org/)

By using remote assistance I'm willing to proof every single one of you that uninstalling the sponsor with the said methods does work, and that ad-aware cripples the uninstaller.

Contact me (mail me) for my MSN addy.

whippingboy, this goes for you too

whippingboy : if you got the confirmation screen from the sponsor program asking for the verification number and then got the message "please close all your Internet Explorer windows, etc..." then you can besure that the sponsor that comes from Messenger Plus! has, indeed, been removed. I guess the problem comes from something else then. First, make sure that it is really lop.com you have on your system, not something else. If the program reinstalls automatically everytime you start your cimputer, it's probably caused by a third party program trying to make a buck by forcing the installation of the software at every restart. This kind of nuisance will hopefully be over when the new US laws against spyware/trojan will be in place.

I have seen, literally, hundreds of people in my school who have installed the Messenger Plus! sponsor. I have uninstalled EVERY SINGLE ONE with the instructions that Patchou gave. I also sacrificed my computer and tested the sponsor of EVERY Plus! version since 2.74, which is at least 4 versions (including beta). They all work. I am willing to prove, just like CookieRevised, that these instructions work. Contact me, and I'll give you my MSN addy so I can show you that it's either not Plus!, or you were doing something wrong.

basicly my start page is forced to this: http://srch.lop.com/

and of course the toolbar etc.  I'm not doing anything wrong, so what I just did is sending an email to lop asking to have the names of all possible programs i could have possibly downloaded.  Once i get this i will search in my add/remove directory.  I'll get back to you after I get a response... as of now I'm still stuck with the toolbar.

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basicly my start page is forced to this: http://srch.lop.com/

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basicly my start page is forced to this: http://srch.lop.com/

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Unless things have changed recently the URL that you quote is not the page that the MP Sponsor Program sets a computer to.

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You have been asked to uninstall and reinstall over and over and over.  When it didn't work, they simply told you to do it again because YOU must have done something wrong

Let's get real.  How many times have you tried the uninstall and reinstall routine whippingboy?  If it didn't work the first, second or third time, it won't work on the fourth, fifth or sixth time.

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You first asked for help around 36 hours ago.  Of course, you're welcome to keep trying their way.  You can even let them "prove" that the MP uninstallation program works (but remember this very important point - their proof willl do you no good when lop is not being installed by MP).  If it were me, I'd write off the last few days as a waste of time, thank them for the advice, and go to the specialist anti-spyware forums for help.

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Originally posted by Chaotic_Shield
I have seen, literally, hundreds of people in my school who have installed the Messenger Plus! sponsor. I have uninstalled EVERY SINGLE ONE with the instructions that Patchou gave. I also sacrificed my computer and tested the sponsor of EVERY Plus! version since 2.74, which is at least 4 versions (including beta). They all work. I am willing to prove, just like CookieRevised, that these instructions work. Contact me, and I'll give you my MSN addy so I can show you that it's either not Plus!, or you were doing something wrong.

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basicly my start page is forced to this: http://srch.lop.com/

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Unless things have changed recently the URL that you quote is not the page that the MP Sponsor Program sets a computer to. 

You have been asked to uninstall and reinstall over and over and over.  When it didn't work, they simply told you to do it again because YOU must have done something wrong

Let's get real.  How many times have you tried the uninstall and reinstall routine whippingboy?  If it didn't work the first, second or third time, it won't work on the fourth, fifth or sixth time.

You first asked for help around 36 hours ago.  Of course, you're welcome to keep trying their way.  You can even let them "prove" that the MP uninstallation program works (but remember this very important point - their proof willl do you no good when lop is not being installed by MP).  If it were me, I'd write off the last few days as a waste of time, thank them for the advice, and go to the specialist anti-spyware forums for help.

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What's happened is that the websie has hijacked your browser
I have a program called X-teq setup which can tweak your computer and it has a feature that can reset your problem.

http://www.xteq.com

Ive reinstalled, uninstalled and it left. 2 days later it came back. I tried again, again it came back. Ive done this 4 times and its a pain in the back. I've tired all the things u have recommened. I have checked the list to see if i have anything else installed: and i dont.

Why are you so againest just giving us the file names of the sponser bar.

Your help is helpful.

Mark

We're not against it, just that if you corrupt the files then it will also corrupt the uninstallation of the sponsor program, install messenger plus! again WITH the sponsor program, then uninstall plus, the reinstall it again without the sponsor program, a right kerfuffle I know, but after all of this, you should be alright..

I chalange the two of you who are complaining to run the provided uninstaller file at:

http://lop.com/new_uninstall.exe

They admint they have run anti adware tools. They have damaged the sponsor software uninstaller files. You need to download the one from the webpage and run it.

http://lop.com/new_uninstall.exe

That uninstaller will remove ALL traces of the sponsor even on damaged installations.

That is the cure all of cure alls and works 100000% everytime.

i thing that isnt safe one....

I've uninstalled the toolbar despite Lop's own installer not working & despite Patchou's own instructions not working.  Go here to see what happened.

Sorry if cross-threading is banned here, I thought it might be helpful.

Malrog

I can't download the uninstaller file. When I click on the link i'm told "your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded". I change my security settings to low and it still didn't work. I have no firewall or anything to be causing a problem...any help????

In reponse to people complaining that the sponsor program comes back after two days of uninstallation, I would like to remind you people that in order to successfully uninstall the sponsor completely:
1) Internet Explorer must be closed at all time during the uninstallation
2) No ad-ware removal program or registry monitoring programs are running (ie. ad-watch)

if those two requirements are not met the sponsor will not uninstall correctly. Another reason why the sponsor may be coming back is because some "system utility program" may be restoring the changes done during the uninstallation, hence "re-installing" the sponsor, try disabling those utilities

the reason we cannot give out a list of files related to the sponsor for you to delete manually is that:
1) the file names are random (meaning they are different for each comp)
2) there are hidden files which you can't find
3) i don't know where these "hidden" files are (hence "hidden")
4) deleting them will be useless since the sponsor can repair itself
therefore, giving out a list of files related to the sponsor is not a solution the problem here