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Next step is for it to not be a moderate threat ... Then the next step after that should be not detecting it at all!... It's really no harm at all!

That's a great piece of news... Now Microsoft finally know what they're doing ;P

I wonder if it actually detects the spyware though? =p

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Originally posted by ShawnZ
I wonder if it actually detects the spyware though? =p

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It asks you if you want to allow several programs in your startup when you install the sponsor, but i didn't see a real warning with the realtime scanner. Manual scan sees the C2Media package as a generic lop.com package (high threat).

But that has never been a problem, AntySpyware is right to at least warn when people install the sponsor.

Wow very nice. They were all sent at once weren't they? Or gradually sent each day/week?

Nice work guys.

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Originally posted by linx05
Wow very nice. They were all sent at once weren't they? Or gradually sent each day/week?

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See the links in the first post in this thread

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And sorry if I don't share the same enthiousiasm of this news, because:

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Originally posted by MenthiX
* Messenger Plus! setup (MsgPlus-361.exe) is not picked up by AntiSpyware anymore (not by realtime scanner, not by full manual scan).

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Errrmm... if there is one thing which nobody had a problem with than it was that the setup is picked up as a bundler!! Afterall, this is the only executable that contains bundled software and should be detected, not the rest (hence what the petition was about AFAIK)...

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Originally posted by MenthiX
* Messenger Plus! itself is still not picked up by the realtime scanner (good, no change there).

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Wasn't that one of the problems? That msgplus.exe itself was flagged (instead of the setup)? So it was changed?

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Originally posted by MenthiX
* Messenger Plus! is picked up as a moderate threat by a manual full system scan.

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Msgplus.exe has got nothing todo with the sponsor, so it shouldn't be detected, sponsor installed or not.


So, In my POV, not much has changed appart from removing the warning "a software budler is trying to install" when executing msgplus.exe. The logical and big issue isn't touched at all: that msgplus.exe is totally harmless and that it is only msgplus-setup.exe which needs to be flagged...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Wasn't that one of the problems? That msgplus.exe itself was flagged (instead of the setup)? So it was changed?

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That was already changed in the past. So no change there.

I agree, the biggest problem that remains is msgplus.exe still being detected (only in manual scan) as a threat, even when the sponsor wasn't installed at all.

I'm glad to see that the great effort of many plus! users has not gone to waste and is still making sure that plus! is recognised for the great add-in that it is and not recognised as a threat.

great news!