Shoutbox

I'm writing a letter to the Spybot Team about the sponsor:

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Hi, I'm from the Messenger Plus! Forums, and there has been a lot of people there complaining about how the Messenger Plus! OPTIONAL sponsor program was installed (it is clearly labeled in the installer program) on their system and they tried to remove it with an anti-Spyware program such as Spybot and the sponsor just kept coming back.

The reason for this was because your program acutally cripples the uninstaller by removing some of the required files. The only way to recover the program from this is to install Plus! again with the sponsor, then uninstall Plus! (which starts the sponsor uninstaller), then to reinstall Plus! without the sponsor program. I was just wondering if you could possibly add something to your program that will check for the uninstaller for anything from C2Media before trying to remove it the normal way.  The sponsor program, by the way, is from C2Media, but is [color=red]HIGHLY[color] modified by Patchou, the creator of Messenger Plus!, to be easily uninstallable and to be not quite as aggressive. This issue has been coming up again and again, and Patchou is getting quite tired of it. He has created a "FAQ About the Sponsor" page, located here.

Not only will this help Patchou, but anybody who has C2Media stuff on their computer. If uninstalled improperly, C2Media programs create large system instabilities, which could cause you to reformat your harddrive.

PS: Please DO NOT assosiate Plus! with spyware. Plus! itself is spyware/adware free. The sponsor program is optionalware, and is the best way for Patchou to make some money for all of the time he spends programming Plus!.

Your friend from the Plus! forums,
Chaotic_Shield

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