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RE: RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus
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Originally posted by Patchou
The file that was detected is not a trojan
Then why do several anti-virus utilities detect it as such? ^o)

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but the program used to install/uninstall the sponsor. It can be extracted for two reasons only: the sponsor was accepted during the installation of Plus! Live
It was not.

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or the sponsor was installed with a previous version of Messenger Plus! (3.xx) so the setup re-extracts the uninstaller to make sure it will be able to remove the sponsor when Messenger Plus! Live is uninstalled.
I'm fairly certain that the sponsor was not previously installed. But not 100%.

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If you didn't accept to install the sponsor, then the only reason for this will be a previous installation from a previous version of Plus!. Of course, in that case, nothing is installed, the program is extracted only for future uninstallation. If the sponsor had already been removed by a third party program on your system, then don't worry about the uninstaller being deleted by your anti-virus, it probably won't be needed anymore (although it is never recommended to delete anything from yoru computer, sponsor or not, by using a third party program when an uninstaller is provided).


Is there a switch to simply extract all files in the EXE? I'd like to do more testing on these files. FWIW, the online scanners that Dane mentioned DO NOT scan inside compressed files, so of course nothing would be detected by them.
10-22-2007 04:30 PM
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Messenger Plus have a Virus - by briandgwx on 08-10-2007 at 03:17 AM
RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus - by prashker on 08-10-2007 at 03:44 AM
RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus - by Dane on 08-10-2007 at 03:45 AM
RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus - by DarryDoo on 10-21-2007 at 09:46 AM
RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus - by ahmetgns on 10-21-2007 at 10:00 AM
RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus - by Spunky on 10-21-2007 at 10:07 AM
RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus - by Patchou on 10-21-2007 at 04:43 PM
RE: RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus - by DarryDoo on 10-22-2007 at 04:30 PM
RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus - by vaccination on 10-22-2007 at 05:51 PM
RE: RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus - by dexluther on 10-23-2007 at 08:42 AM
RE: Messenger Plus have a Virus - by Patchou on 10-23-2007 at 05:24 PM


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