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RE: Petition to save Messenger Plus!
I think what many people are not understanding is that MSAS is detecting the program itself, and not the installer. From the petition itself:
"In a recent update of Microsoft Anti-Spyware, the threat level of Messenger Plus! was lowered from 3/5 to 2/5, which was a good thing, however, the program itself, msgplus.exe, is now detected immediately at system startup or whenever run manually by the user, and the following message is displayed in bold red: "Warning, Messenger Plus! Software Bundler is trying to install!". In addition to discouraging anybody in their right mind to click "Allow", this message is, to put it simply, a lie. Messenger Plus! is not a "threat" and it certainly is not trying to "install itself on your computer", it's already been installed at this point and the program is just trying to run and do what the user expects it to do."
The anti-virus software is detecting it after Plus! is already installed, with or without the sponsor program. That is what the problem is. The program itself is being flagged as spyware when it clearly is not. There should be no confusion about it: they are detecting the Messenger Plus! program, not the installer. That is why Patchou is going through all the trouble with this petition, and why anyone who likes to use Plus! should give their support to get the issue resolved.
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