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you should put a counter on the amout of people that signed the petion

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
you should put a counter on the amout of people that signed the petion

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Originally posted by Patchou
The count of current signatures will be added tomorrow, when there will be more than a hundred or two .

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btw. I signed the petition

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Originally posted by dawgie
"the policy of Microsoft Anti-Spyware is to flag all installers which bundle spyware/adware as being potentially dangerous" I'm sorry Patchou but it falls into that catagory.

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No, this MS Adware detection software seems to detect the msgplus.exe process itself, even if the sponsor was deselected during installation. If it only detected the installer (or processes capable of adding spyware to your system, which Plus! doesn't include) I'm sure noone would be complaining.

I tried this software once myself and found it pretty misleading. It found several hazards that were't in any way classified as being dangerous by Ad-aware and Spybot S&D.

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Originally posted by x2zen

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
you should put a counter on the amout of people that signed the petion

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Originally posted by Patchou
The count of current signatures will be added tomorrow, when there will be more than a hundred or two .

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btw. I signed the petition

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sry, 2 lazy to read the whole thread

Signed the petition.... Hopefully everything works out.. and if it doesn't I say Patchou makes his own Messenger service

Signed and put http://www.msgplus.net/petition.php in the newssubmit on 1 of the biggest Dutch tech sites.

Signed. If there is anything else we can do, let us know.

By the way, what is a simple way of adding the banner to one's site?

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Originally posted by MenthiX
Signed and put http://www.msgplus.net/petition.php in the newssubmit on 1 of the biggest Dutch tech sites.

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Tweakers.net right?

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Originally posted by cardshark
Signed. If there is anything else we can do, let us know.

By the way, what is a simple way of adding the banner to one's site?

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<center>
<a href="http://www.msgplus.net/petition.php" target="_blank" title="Sign the petition to save messenger plus!"><img src="http://www.msgplus.net/images/banner_petition.gif"></a>
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there

Signed the petition and will link to it in a couple of places.

My comment: Microsoft should be able to tell the difference between a Messenger Plus! installation with OPTIONAL sponsor program and an installation without the sponsor program. There's absolutely no reason for MS to do something with the installation without sponsor program other than to ignore it. Ad-Aware nor Spybot report it, if you want MSAS to be a success, then do something about this. Because instead of letting MSAS remove Messenger Plus just like that, we'll just (recommend) uninstall(ing) MSAS just like that. Thank you.

I don't know what's worse, ad/spyware or false positives.