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I've always loved using Messenger Plus and all its features but, i found out when i turned my comp on i had SPYWARE...I used the lastest version of mircosoft spyware detection and found out Messenger Plus had a trojan and spyware programs along with it. I uninstalled and tried many wyas to elimate the virus and soon  found out 5 of my friends got the same trojan. I have a feelling something is going on here with the msg plus group.

All right, let's not get into a debate..  here's a link to a thread on how to delete the spyware..

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=21598

Also, remember to take a look at the msghelp.net forus, by reading here :

http://shoutbox.menthix.net/rules.html

( read the, DO NOT DOUBLE POST part ) there's an edit button for a reason

My friend from halo online told me to install Messenger Plus wiith out the sponser cause it puts in alot of adware ( spyware whatever ) so i never did but got my trojan..

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Originally posted by (MeX).Banks
My friend from halo online told me to install Messenger Plus wiith out the sponser cause it puts in alot of adware ( spyware whatever ) so i never did but got my trojan..

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It is absoultly impossible for someone to opt out of the sponsor program and still have it install. There is absolutly no way this will happen. Either you accidently accepted it or something else is on your computer.

Microsoft Antispyware will detect Messenger Plus! as spyware/adware even if you installed it without the sponsor, rest assured that it is a false detection.

It could also be that you have caught it from another place, as the web. But it is a 100% sure it didn't come from Msg Plus! if you did not accept to instal the sponsor program.

Sometimes my comp does weird things and sometimes it opens folders without my clicking on it...im sure its a trojan..and yes i used micro anti-spyware

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Originally posted by (MeX).Banks
Sometimes my comp does weird things and sometimes it opens folders without my clicking on it...im sure its a trojan..and yes i used micro anti-spyware

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As mentioned above, if you did not install the sponsor program, then this has nothing to do with MsgPlus! This looks to me to be a virus circulating on the msn messenger, which my sister had, and it is to mention also that she had no Msg Plus! installed on her computer.

Have you clicked any .pif links lately?

The adware installed by Messenger Plus! is not a trojan but an adware, there is no way that even with it, what you describe could happen.

The MS Anti-Spyware program detects Plus! as a "software bundler", not a spyware. If you didn't install the sponsor during install, then you got nothing else but Plus!.

I got 6 detections on anti spyware from Messenger Plus ... 4 adware and detected it harmless and 2 .. 1 a worm and the 2nd some trojan program...at the moment iim using my other comp which is really crappy....