Shoutbox

As Segosa mentionned, Microsoft just bought the software from Giant, the one and only company to my knowledge that was detecting Plus! as dangerous (pff...). At least, the default action is Ignore.

I thank you for your support and encourage you to forward your thoughts to Microsoft directly. Let's hope the entry will be removed in the next beta (but for that, we need to talk to Microsoft and I already started the discussion today in fact).

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Originally posted by Patchou
As Segosa mentionned, Microsoft just bought the software from Giant, the one and only company to my knowledge that was detecting Plus! as dangerous (pff...). At least, the default action is Ignore.

I thank you for your support and encourage you to forward your thoughts to Microsoft directly. Let's hope the entry will be removed in the next beta (but for that, we need to talk to Microsoft and I already started the discussion today in fact).

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You go patchou...

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Originally posted by Patchou
encourage you to forward your thoughts to Microsoft directly.

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If you could tell us the right way to contact Microsoft about this. Microsoft has such many contact adresses, how will i know my feedback end up with the right people?

I'm willing to send a formal email to Microsoft expressing the facts about the Messenger plus! adware, if we can get the sufficient email address and any peramaters that you want us to be within in the email.

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Originally posted by eckocomplex
Neowin has an exclusive on Microsoft's new anti-spyware program. They have given a screenshot of it detecting Messenger Plus! and make some fairly harsh calls (altho they do outline the OPTIONAL).

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That's what this thread's about

Indeed, as many say, it's not MS' fault, but GIANT's fault.

BTW, since it lists Messenger Plus and not the actual adware, I wonder if it detects THE ADWARE or if it shouts at the presence of Msgplus even if the sponsor hasn't been installed?

I hope it gets changed to only detect if LOP is installed like what surfi said , otherwise alot of people will downlaod it and think just because m$ says its spyware it is


ps where threads merged or something because a second ago ecko_complex had his own thread.

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ps where threads merged or something because a second ago ecko_complex had his own thread.

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Yeah, sorry I didn't see this thead x_x.

I just did a test: Plus! is detected even without the sponsor installed and all the files are listed as potentially dangerous, which includes the readme and the various translations lol... lets hope Microsoft will fix this mess.

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Originally posted by Patchou
I just did a test: Plus! is detected even without the sponsor installed and all the files are listed as potentially dangerous, which includes the readme and the various translations lol... lets hope Microsoft will fix this mess.

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The README file ?
ROFL! If they're gonna say that jpg files are dangerous, I can understand that now...
but txt files with buffer overflows or other dangerous things ?
ROFL ROFL ROFL

hey where did u get that program i would like to try it out