Shoutbox

The sponsor application wont be removed from Messenger Plus!. Before Patchou chose which Company to side with when adding it into Messenger he had a multitude of requests making the most lite version of a sponsor program out there.

Since the beginning of the sponsor there has been many threads created and many discussions held and the end result is always the same. Patchou wont remove the sponsor as he needs a source of income.

As far as the few changes to your computer (permanent toolbar, new favorites, a non-existant home page, and several new icons on my desktop) isn't it better having the choice to install it tho? I mean you go and download Kazaa then you will really see what spyware is. The very first release that had the sponsor application I admit was terrible, it went as far as changing your computer name/domain name, but since then Patchou has demanded they tone it down and they have. The search bar is half decent. The favorites are standard, the home page could just be having a bad day. As far as the Changing filename for the process that hasn't happened to me since the beginning of Beta testing version 3 so I am not sure what else there was on your computer. But you could try running an Spyware Remover like Ad-Aware or SpyBot Search and Destroy just to see if you have anything left on your computer.

For the not so computer saavy people you can create small application for them that uses the /SilentInstallNoSponsor parameter that will only install Plus! not the sponsor.


Cheers,
Wow what a long post.