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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Yeah, that's another thing people were complaining about during the private beta. You can't turn it off... And although it will protect a lot of less pc-literate people (which is what it is for) and as such is a great feature, there are still people who know what they are doing and for them this is unfortunatly again a step towards leaving Messenger all together for their business. Hopefully this will change by the time the final version is released.
I don't understand why they don't just rely on IE's own SmartFilter. It is like they are not trusting their own products.
Just like you had to specify a virus scanner in older Messenger version even though Windows itself already monitors if your anti virus product is running (which will scan all files on-access). They seem to have finally removed that in this version btw . SmartScreen in IE will already protect you from bad sites, just like other modern browsers all have their own technology for that. The only thing I can imagine they are gaining from this approach is logging each and every link sent through Messenger so the can keep track of virusses/bots spreading through Messenger distributing malware or phishing for private details. But if it is logging the links they are after, don't those all flow through the Messenger server anyway? If so they could just log them on their servers without forcing me through some dodgy redirection.
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