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O.P. Mcafee and XoftSpySE treats MsgPLusLive as a Spyware
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Well, I don't know why, but when I enter at this website,  My McAfee Site Advisor is in red, telling this page can be "dangerous", but I think it isn't. You can see it Here ( Sorry if you see it in spanish, I couldn't find a way to put it in english)

McAfee Site Advising for Msgpluslive (It takes time to load)

Even the XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware sees alot of MsgPlusLive files as a Spyware:

In this image you can see MsgPlusLive, and other program that i installed but i know what it does, and it doesn't have risk, so as I think MsgPlusLive doesn't either:

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[Image: Xoft-2.jpg]

Oh, and I didn't install the sponsor

This post was edited on 07-01-2008 at 02:38 PM by nox.
07-01-2008 02:36 PM
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RE: Mcafee and XoftSpySE treats MsgPLusLive as a Spyware
hanks for the report. I suggest you email the people at XoftSpySE Anti-Spyware to make them understand the difference between a harmless freeware and a threat.
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07-01-2008 06:41 PM
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RE: Mcafee and XoftSpySE treats MsgPLusLive as a Spyware
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Originally posted by nox
Well, I don't know why, but when I enter at this website,  My McAfee Site Advisor is in red, telling this page can be "dangerous", but I think it isn't. You can see it Here ( Sorry if you see it in spanish, I couldn't find a way to put it in english)
To show how "accurate" they are, there are several sites which actually link to programs which steal passwords or cause other heavoc to a user's Messenger and/or share warez and are shown as "completely safe", so go figure.....

I don't have the link at this moment, but there are more threads which already report this very same issue with SiteAdvisor and in one of them those links I speak of are shown... You could probably find them with the forum search.

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In this image you can see MsgPlusLive, and other program that i installed but i know what it does, and it doesn't have risk, so as I think MsgPlusLive doesn't either:
The only low 'risk' there is, is that you can explicitly install the sponsor (it will never ever be installed automatically without the user's explicit approval) and as a result are presented with ads... so, no spyware, nor virusses, nor whatever else, just ads which you explicitly should ask for.

This post was edited on 07-01-2008 at 09:12 PM by CookieRevised.
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RE: Mcafee and XoftSpySE treats MsgPLusLive as a Spyware
yeah at least it's low risk this time, unlike previous times 8-)
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