Shoutbox

Hello,

after many people reported a trojan was installing with Messenger Plus!, I started to worry. Any moderate/advanced user know very well that if a trojan was installed with my software, a lot of other signs would be present than an anti-virus warning (like firewall alerts). Nevertheless, this certainely doesn't give a good idea to users in general. I contacted the sponsor company, they did some research, and as I suspected, some anti-virus (none of the major companies though) wrongly detect a trojan called Trojan.Download.Swizz in one of the setup files that the sponsor unpacks in your temporary directory.

The antivirus companies have been contacted and will soon fix this bug. Meanwhile, the sponsor setup package will be modified to not include the wrongly accused file. It's really bad to think about the bad publicity this has given to Messenger Plus! over the past two monthes, thank you for your continuous support, it's in time like this that's it's mostly appreciated.

Patchou

We always know the sponsor doesn't contain any spyware or trojan because Patchou asked the company to lighten the package

My PC-Cillin doesn't point it out though...By the way, the "trojan"(it's not:\)'s Trendmicro's name is TROJ_SWIZZOR.A.

Mnjul: sorry I edited your post. there's no need to post on mess.be about it, people will quickly read it and think that there was trojan and that it has been removed.. trust me, there's no need

Hmm... thats funny because I don't use any anti-virus program and I installed AVG a couple days ago and when i ran my first scan it deteced download.swiss I was a little worried but now i know its just a false alarm. Much needed post patchou

I use Norton.

And I know Patchou would never do anything bad to our PC systems.

Well in my scan it didnt say it was coming from plus or anything i just thought i downloaded a bad program like those old things on mess.be that infected my comp. I would never ever beleive it if it said a trojan was in plus! not even if i got paid

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Originally posted by Patchou
Mnjul: sorry I edited your post. there's no need to post on mess.be about it, people will quickly read it and think that there was trojan and that it has been removed.. trust me, there's no need

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Patchou it's very OK...because you didn't know if I am still at my computer (you don't have me on your list) and couldn't tell me to edit it.

Sorry for that

Blah, truth never changes Plus! is still the best Messenger add-on ever, and the sponsor is not harmful at all

I shall reinstall it from the post that claimed he found a trojan and double check (as well installing the sponsor)
be back with more info

Scan complete, nothing found

I'm still conducting those tests Patchou, so far i have seen no outbound traffic from the Virtual Machine except for when it gets its DHCP lease.

Anyway, ill report back to you

ive found nothing as well