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Mcafee and XoftSpySE treats MsgPLusLive as a Spyware by nox on 07-01-2008 at 02:36 PM

Sorry if wrong section. If it is wrong, please move.

Well, I don't know why, but when I enter at this website,  My McAfee Site Advisor is in red, telling this page can be "dangerous", but I think it isn't. You can see it Here ( Sorry if you see it in spanish, I couldn't find a way to put it in english)

McAfee Site Advising for Msgpluslive (It takes time to load)

Even the XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware sees alot of MsgPlusLive files as a Spyware:

In this image you can see MsgPlusLive, and other program that i installed but i know what it does, and it doesn't have risk, so as I think MsgPlusLive doesn't either:

[Image: Xoft-1.jpg]
[Image: Xoft-2.jpg]

Oh, and I didn't install the sponsor

RE: Mcafee and XoftSpySE treats MsgPLusLive as a Spyware by Patchou on 07-01-2008 at 06:41 PM

hanks for the report. I suggest you email the people at XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware to make them understand the difference between a harmless freeware and a threat.

RE: Mcafee and XoftSpySE treats MsgPLusLive as a Spyware by CookieRevised on 07-01-2008 at 09:10 PM

quote:
Originally posted by nox
Well, I don't know why, but when I enter at this website,  My McAfee Site Advisor is in red, telling this page can be "dangerous", but I think it isn't. You can see it Here ( Sorry if you see it in spanish, I couldn't find a way to put it in english)
To show how "accurate" they are, there are several sites which actually link to programs which steal passwords or cause other heavoc to a user's Messenger and/or share warez and are shown as "completely safe", so go figure.....

I don't have the link at this moment, but there are more threads which already report this very same issue with SiteAdvisor and in one of them those links I speak of are shown... You could probably find them with the forum search.

;)

quote:
Originally posted by nox
In this image you can see MsgPlusLive, and other program that i installed but i know what it does, and it doesn't have risk, so as I think MsgPlusLive doesn't either:
The only low 'risk' there is, is that you can explicitly install the sponsor (it will never ever be installed automatically without the user's explicit approval) and as a result are presented with ads... so, no spyware, nor virusses, nor whatever else, just ads which you explicitly should ask for.
RE: Mcafee and XoftSpySE treats MsgPLusLive as a Spyware by aNILEator on 07-01-2008 at 09:16 PM

yeah at least it's low risk this time, unlike previous times 8-)