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Originally posted by Spy Killer
"There's no-one so blind as the guy who doesn't want to see."
Is a juxta-phrase of an old Irish saying, meaning ....
That's an irish saying? I've heard it all over the world in different languages, I don't think you can be sure it started somewhere
I (myself) installed and uninstalled and I had no problems with anything keeping hijacking the homepage, you just have to change it manually of course, but it doesn't change back.
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When you install and agree to the spyware, the web browser IE is solidly hijacked to mysearchnow.com.
Using the uninstall which Patchou insists works, in fact leaves the browser hijacked to mysearchnow, which continually attempts to reassert itself as the home page, requiring manual intervention to remove.
That's, again, and I agree, annoying -- but not harmful or irreversible.
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you don't have to look far to find all those people who AREN'T happy with their hijackings.
...which have came here and told how to uninstall it and why it was installed (because they chose to) and solved the problem (except those blinds that don't want to see that you mention).
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--Quote EvilSeph (on Patchou)
...and by including a sponsor, he can continue to distribute Messenger Plus! to the public for free.--
Therefore the price for development is ad bundling, as I said.
A price that only those who want can pay. Which turns it into a non-existent price tag.
Yeah?
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No, I make a living undoing virus and spyware damage, not uninstalling programs.
And since there's no virus or spyware being bundled with Plus...
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Originally posted by Spy Killer
I do beg your pardon, but if you read my mail, the 'stupid' comment was a quote from someone else
Sorry to interrupt, but I beg
you pardon:
"don't let any moderator or developer fool you into thinking that this stuff is fluffy cuddly and nice".
Acording to an English-English dictionary, fool:
idiot, dummy; clown; court jester
which are synonims of stupid.
How's that for fact-checking?
As for the
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Originally posted by Spy Killer
The first 5 items on the hijack page (mysearchnow) are:
Online Casino
Online Dating
Diet Pills
Web Hosting
Weight Loss
and goes on later....
Viagra
Now I agree on that. Thanks for the heads up. I don't know what can be done about it, but certainly something should...