"
Never give out your password or credit card number..." on top of the conversation window is the security warning from Messenger that will be shown only
the first 5 times when you log in with a
new account and start a conversation.
In Messenger Plus! 2 you can change this in the Messenger Plus! Preferences to show "
MsgPlus Rocks!" by default so that Messenger Plus! will overwrite the default message in your currently logged in MSN account with the one you have set.
Since Messenger Plus! 3 this feature has been removed. So if you want to change this message or disabled it you need to edit your Windows Registry yourself:
MSN Messenger related registry settings:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MessengerService\Policies\IMWarning
This REG_SZ key will contain
the text used by MSN Messenger to show in conversations. If this key doesn't exist, the default text "
Never give out your password or credit card number..." will be shown.
Setting this key will change the default security warning for ALL users on the PC.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\<account_id>\WarningMsgCount
This REG_DWORD key will contain
the number of times the security message
will be shown. This is done by this counter in your registry. By default it is set to
5 and it will count backwards to 0! When it hits
0 the security message will not be shown anymore. Note that setting it to 20 for example, won't do any good. MSN Messenger will automatically correct this and start counting from 5 again.
However, you can set it to
4294967295 (decimal) or
FFFFFFFF (hexadecimal) to disable the countdown and
always show the security message.
Setting the WarningMsgCount key will change/disable the countdown per account; aka per .NET passport (<account_id> in registry key shown above). To find out the account id number for the correct .NET Passport, use Choli's MSN ID calculator or TReKiE's online MSN ID calculater.
Windows Live Messenger related registry settings:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\<account_id>\WarningMsgCount
This REG_DWORD key will contain
the number of times the security message
was shown. This is done by this counter in your registry. By default it is set to
0 and it will count up to 5! When it hits
5 the security message will not be shown anymore.
Note that by setting it to anything between 5 and 2147483647 (decimal) or 5 and 7FFFFFFF (hexadecimal), it will not auto-correct anymore and will just keep the value and thus not show a security message. From 2147483648 (decimal) or 80000000 (hexadecimal) and upwards, it will start counting again.
However, you can also set it to
4294967295 (decimal) or
FFFFFFFF (hexadecimal) to disable the count and
always show the security message.
Setting the WarningMsgCount key will change/disable the countdown per account; aka per .NET passport (<account_id> in registry key shown above). To find out the account id number for the correct .NET Passport, use Choli's MSN ID calculator or the TReKiE's online MSN ID calculater.
Messenger Plus! 2 and 3 related registry settings:
these settings can be changed with Choli's Plus! Tweaker.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\<net_passport>\Preferences\ChangeSecurityWarning
This REG_DWORD key is a boolean to
enable/disable the Messenger Plus! feature to overwrite the security warning. If it is set to
1 (true), the feature will be enabled. If it is set to
0 (false), the feature will be disabled and Messenger Plus! will not overwrite the default MSN Messenger security warning.
Note that the
WarningMsgCount key (see above) must also be set if you enable this Messenger Plus! feature or it will have no effect.
This key is per MSN account aka .NET Passport. This means you can enable/disable the security warning for each different MSN account.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Patchou\MsgPlus2\<net_passport>\Preferences\SecurityWarningTxt
This REG_SZ key holds the
actual text used by Messenger Plus! to overwrite the security message from MSN Messenger.
This key is per MSN account aka .NET Passport. This means you can have a different security warning for each different MSN account.
This post was edited so it can be used as a reference.
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