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Hi all, my microsoft antispyware always identifies Messenger Plus! as a spyware.

Can anybody here tell me the reasons?

Thank you very much.

The petition should be quite informative about that.

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Originally posted by Alvinbeo
Hi all, my microsoft antispyware always identifies Messenger Plus! as a spyware.

Can anybody here tell me the reasons?

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It happened to me too.

I Installed Messenger plus without the sponsor and still Microsoft AntiSpyware detected it...
This does not confirm that there is spyware in Messenger Plus, But that that the Messenger Plus Software has been identified as a 'bundler software type' and may pose a threat.

If you are not an advanced user, it would seem that Messenger Plus would be as a fact spyware, THIS IS SIMPLY NOT THE CASE!

I did how ever manage to resolve that issue.

I put it on the "Ignore Spyware Threats" list.  It's that simple.

DO NOT QUARANTINE IT! If you do, you will make a mess of it {The Microsoft Anti-spyware Quarantine lacks performance when re-integrating the quarantined item} and you will have to re-install Mess Plus after taking it out of quarantine.
Yes, this process initially is a hassle <putting it on an ignore list> when it comes up, but well worth it.

I hope this helps everyone...

I love Mess Plus and have used it religiously and endorse this message

I use Microsoft Anti-Spyware too, and it said that msg plus is a thread, but i know that msg plus isn't spyware, so i set it to always ignore msg plus.
And I sign th petition

Yea!  It seems we are making progress.  Between my thread bitching about this on the Microsoft antispyware newsgroups, my false positive report that I sent and the petition that patchou has done it is no longer re-flagging msgplus.exe on load.  It is still however flagging the program during a normal scan.  Grrr....