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Originally posted by CookieRevised
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Originally posted by dbgarza
Yeah but still it does applies to what I say, I mean msn can't store all the emoticons and other content of your contacts when they're offline, also it only stores the ones your contacts have sent to you on the conversations, not all the content they have.
You implied something else, at least that is what I read/understand from your post; you implied that content stealers do not work when your contacts are offline. That is wrong, they do work no matter what the status is of your contact is at that moment. In fact, they could even work when Messenger isn't even started.
Of course, a content stealer can only steal what is already on your hard disk. Hence they steal nothing at all. They simply copy what is already on your hard disk to another location of your choice. So, a content stealer does not depend on any status of your contacts. A content stealer simply searches a specific directory on your hard disk and doesn't care about statusses.
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Originally posted by dbgarza
Stuffplug content stealer works that way
Every stealer works in the exact same way! SP is no exception.
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Originally posted by dbgarza
when you close the WLM all that cache gets deleted automatically.
Nope. It depends on your settings. And by default nothing is deleted.
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Originally posted by dbgarza
With the display images is the exception since now you can keep your current display image to be shown whenever you use WLM, since it gets stored on a webserver Microsoft created for that, here is the list of ports and networks used with WLM:
This has got nothing todo with content stealers at all.
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Originally posted by zabrak
Ah damn. So I can only get pictures that people used when they had a conversation with me?
Yes and no. You can get everything what you have ever seen being used (if you don't delete your cache of course). This goes for what you've seen in a conversation obviously (the display picture and custom emoticons of your contacts). But this also goes for display pictures you've seen in contact cards and other places where a display picture is shown.
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Originally posted by zabrak
There needs to be a program where you click 'scan' and it grabs all your contacts' pictures whether you've conversed with them or not, although that may be impossible
It is indeed impossible...
Despite their name, a content stealer does not steal, nor hack anything. It simply copies what is already stored on your computer. Hence why you don't need any content stealer to actually "steal" the display pictures and custom emoticons used by your contacts in convos with you and in other places.
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Anyways, everything is already explained in the links I gave and in many older threads. I suggest you follow the links and read them. Everything you need to know is there, in great detail 
Yes and thank you. However I deleted all my MSN related files on this computer. BUT I printed off your post and brought the paper to a friends house, then followed the steps on his computer. I then saved the pictures on there (Which were all my pictures that I was using when he was talking to me via msn) and brought them back to my computer
