O.P. RE: Messenger Plus installed SCUMWARE on my pc
Patchou, I'm an amateur developer myself and I respect your right to generate revenue for yourself.
WIPEDRIVE is a highly suspicious name for something that doesn't do anything nasty to your hard drive. You probably wouldn't install anything that would format a users hard drive but did you even notice the WIPEDRIVE file? You don't even know what it does so how do you know whether it's harmless or not? I bet you don't even use the search thing yourself because it slows your connection down, pops up ads all the time and it takes between 10 and 20 seconds to navigate between pages when it's running. I've had a previous version of this scumware which installs itself silently using exploits and uses similar methods to avoid deletion. Any "helper" application that restores itself when you delete it is scumware by my definition and pretty much everyone elses I should imagine. There are 2 classes of software that have a legitimate reason to do this and that is security/antivirus software and system software. This search thing is neither and you know as well as I do that it is a parasite. You are condoning software that has the ability to illegally install itself on computers using browser exploits and security loopholes. This, to me, doesn't send out a very good message about how trustworthy your product is. Message Plus is a fantastic piece of software and I love it bits but all this is overshadowed by the scumware that you are promoting.
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