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O.P. Note about Trojan detection
Hello,

after many people reported a trojan was installing with Messenger Plus!, I started to worry. Any moderate/advanced user know very well that if a trojan was installed with my software, a lot of other signs would be present than an anti-virus warning (like firewall alerts). Nevertheless, this certainely doesn't give a good idea to users in general. I contacted the sponsor company, they did some research, and as I suspected, some anti-virus (none of the major companies though) wrongly detect a trojan called Trojan.Download.Swizz in one of the setup files that the sponsor unpacks in your temporary directory.

The antivirus companies have been contacted and will soon fix this bug. Meanwhile, the sponsor setup package will be modified to not include the wrongly accused file. It's really bad to think about the bad publicity this has given to Messenger Plus! over the past two monthes, thank you for your continuous support, it's in time like this that's it's mostly appreciated.

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10-10-2003 07:14 PM
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Note about Trojan detection - by Patchou on 10-10-2003 at 07:14 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Mnjul on 10-10-2003 at 07:21 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Patchou on 10-10-2003 at 08:22 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by dotNorma on 10-10-2003 at 09:21 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by DarKnight on 10-10-2003 at 11:20 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by dotNorma on 10-10-2003 at 11:24 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Mnjul on 10-11-2003 at 01:17 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by matty on 10-11-2003 at 05:32 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by surfichris on 10-11-2003 at 07:05 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Stigmata on 10-11-2003 at 08:12 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Choli on 10-11-2003 at 11:15 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by CookieRevised on 10-11-2003 at 12:10 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by kao on 10-11-2003 at 08:18 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by BooGhost on 10-11-2003 at 11:57 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Mr.Str@nge! on 10-14-2003 at 09:55 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by roxanneu on 10-14-2003 at 10:25 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Wabz on 10-15-2003 at 12:06 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by carolinadrew on 10-15-2003 at 12:37 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Choli on 10-15-2003 at 12:54 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by AustinM1983 on 10-15-2003 at 01:14 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by musicalmidget on 10-15-2003 at 01:28 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by bl1nkr0x on 10-15-2003 at 04:19 PM
RE: RE: Note about Trojan detection - by bra1nwash on 10-16-2003 at 07:01 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by BooGhost on 10-15-2003 at 06:22 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Patchou on 10-16-2003 at 01:47 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Patchou on 10-16-2003 at 01:55 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by KnightieBoy on 10-17-2003 at 11:46 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Guido on 10-17-2003 at 07:40 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by si3rra on 10-17-2003 at 11:16 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Patchou on 10-17-2003 at 11:22 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Guido on 10-18-2003 at 12:46 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Vantage on 10-20-2003 at 01:16 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Odin.EXE on 10-20-2003 at 09:44 AM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by chrisbloe on 10-20-2003 at 09:29 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by GiantSpider on 10-21-2003 at 06:13 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by CookieRevised on 10-21-2003 at 06:16 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by GiantSpider on 10-21-2003 at 06:30 PM
RE: Note about Trojan detection - by Patchou on 10-27-2003 at 06:45 PM


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