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Hello everyone,

as some of you know, there was a bug with the "Hide advertisement banner" feature of Messenger Plus! since MSN Messenger 6.0 was released. This bug caused a banner to appear from time to time above the contact list in a weird buggish way. Recently, a lot of people reported this bug on the forum so I gave a more closer look to the problem and I finally was able to fix it. No more banner, ever :). This bug fix will be part of Messenger Plus! 3.10 that will be released in the beginning of September. Also, I would like to point out that the use of ad-removal patches is illegal. The result is the same but the method differs. Please do not recommend to people to use these patches.

Last note: I was informed today about a very important problem in Messenger Plus!, some people already call it the "hi-five security hole". I am doing everything in my power to find a fix to this problem but so far, no luck. More information can be found at http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=30206 .

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This post was edited on 08-21-2004 at 11:53 PM by Patchou.
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Thanks for the update Patchou.  Good luck on patching the "Hi-Five Security Hole" (which, I have no idea is being called "Security Hole").

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08-22-2004 12:19 AM
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"hi-five security hole"
Displaying the wrong picture is a security issue to you now? Wow, i'm gonna feel uber-safe using your software in the future :D. Good to hear about the ad-block, never had problems with it myself but i saw the increase of this problem at IRC too.
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finally a new version! :banana: (so the spanish latin translation update i made some months ago will be finally added to Plus! :P)
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Last note: I was informed today about a very important problem in Messenger Plus!, some people already call it the "hi-five security hole". I am doing everything in my power to find a fix to this problem but so far, no luck. More information can be found at http://shoutbox.menthix.net/showthread.php?tid=30206 .
now, is that a joke? :undecided: :dodgy:
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now, is that a joke?
I don't know... what's your guess? :p
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* Dane guesses Yes

For 2 reasons!  1. How could Emotions pose a Security Risk unless there is a bug in that emotions coding and 2. Its a really lowlevel problem unless there actually is a security risk associated.
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"hi-five security hole"
:rofl:

Oh well, its good he takes this so seriously in a certain manner... :P Go Patchou! (N) Oops, thumb on the wrong side! :rofl:
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For 2 reasons!  1. How could Emotions pose a Security Risk unless there is a bug in that emotions coding and 2. Its a really lowlevel problem unless there actually is a security risk associated.
we didnt need such a big explanation anyway :rolleyes:
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Is that :dodgy: force the other computer to do something security hole going to be fixed involving the (!N) command (I won't be very clear on that because I don't want people again knowing how to do it)
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yeah yeah, the (!N) thing has already been fixed :)
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