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RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus!
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Originally posted by BigBean
some peoples ignorace is truely amazing, this is an endless debate (flamewar might be a better term...), and yet after all this time, the simple message hasn't gotten through: Messenger Plus! can install adware. All this forum seems to talk about is "its optional u fukface!!1". Optional or not, it still comes with it, it can still install it, and people do install it. How does no one see that?
you are missing the point of these recent discussions...

We KNOW Messenger Plus!'s installer ITSELF COULD install adware IF the user chooses to do so... But this is besides the current point, as that would be correct to detect...

The point of these recent descussions is that MSAS has gone one step further and detecting something which IS NOT there. Aka: it detects Plus! itself (msgplus.exe and the DLL's) as containing potential adware, while it never contained any adware at all. Even when you've choosen not to install the sponsor, MSAS will still give the warning.

The point is that MSAS shouldn't detect msgplus.exe, MsgPlusH.dll, MsgPlusRes.dll, etc... as malicious, but it should detect the INSTALLER as an adware containing product. If it did that, then we wouldn't had any issue with it...

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Originally posted by BigBean
regardless of MsgPlus also being a religion, Patchou being your God
Messenger Plus! is far from a religion and Patchou is far from a God. If you think this way about us, then it is not us who are biased...

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Originally posted by BigBean
You cannot expect 12 your noob to read 10 pages of jargon and make an imformed decision.
The 12 year old noob does NOT need to read 10 pages of jargon at all! It simply needs to read 1 sentence, or look at 1 image, or look at 1 heading in the installer to know what he/she is installing...

Don't twist around facts please...

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Originally posted by BigBean
You need to look outside this community, and see what's going on the real world.
I can assure you that many of the top-helpers and most repected people of this community have a very good knowledge and sense about what's going on in the "real" world as well as in the PC world.

This post was edited on 08-15-2005 at 03:05 PM by CookieRevised.
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MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by DJeX on 08-11-2005 at 05:43 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by MoRiA on 08-11-2005 at 06:14 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by absorbation on 08-11-2005 at 06:15 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by TylerG on 08-11-2005 at 06:54 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by Anubis on 08-11-2005 at 07:02 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by mwe99 on 08-11-2005 at 07:09 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by DJeX on 08-11-2005 at 07:12 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by Patchou on 08-14-2005 at 06:22 PM
RE: RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by alexp2_ad on 08-14-2005 at 09:49 PM
RE: RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by lawdka0z on 08-15-2005 at 04:39 AM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by NiteMare on 08-14-2005 at 09:52 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by Chrono on 08-14-2005 at 10:38 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by L. Coyote on 08-15-2005 at 12:19 AM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by Death001 on 08-15-2005 at 02:13 AM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by Patchou on 08-15-2005 at 03:30 AM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by albert on 08-15-2005 at 04:51 AM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by Patchou on 08-15-2005 at 05:13 AM
RE: RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by lawdka0z on 08-15-2005 at 05:15 AM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by L. Coyote on 08-15-2005 at 05:14 AM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by alexp2_ad on 08-15-2005 at 08:57 AM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 08-15-2005 at 11:01 AM
RE: RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by lawdka0z on 08-15-2005 at 11:09 AM
RE: RE: RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 08-15-2005 at 12:27 PM
RE: RE: RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by Curtis on 08-15-2005 at 02:19 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by SpikedEffect on 08-15-2005 at 01:09 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by dawgie on 08-15-2005 at 01:41 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by psyko on 08-15-2005 at 01:43 PM
Ranting - by BigBean on 08-15-2005 at 02:08 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by absorbation on 08-15-2005 at 02:10 PM
RE: RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by BigBean on 08-15-2005 at 02:15 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 08-15-2005 at 02:14 PM
RE: RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by BigBean on 08-15-2005 at 02:22 PM
RE: RE: RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by CookieRevised on 08-15-2005 at 02:58 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by absorbation on 08-15-2005 at 02:18 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by absorbation on 08-15-2005 at 02:40 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by sk8michael on 08-15-2005 at 03:02 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by psyko on 08-15-2005 at 05:57 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by EvilSeph on 08-15-2005 at 06:02 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by Lou on 08-15-2005 at 06:06 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by Curtis on 08-15-2005 at 06:27 PM
RE: MS AntiSpyware Now Blocks Messenger Plus! - by Patchou on 08-15-2005 at 07:12 PM


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