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Originally posted by masken
Looking at this statically: I'm sorry to say that you're wrong Patchou.

Your installer DOES contain adware, therefore, technically, your application is granted a strike.

Why? Well there's third party software bundled that you do not control. In Messenger Plus!'s case, this might not be an issue. But it still doesn't matter. Adware is in your installer. Unless you remove it, you'll never get MS to classify your application to anything else.

It simply doesn't matter if your application doesn't contain any ad/spyware, your installer does.

The line has to be drawn somewhere, and I think it's drawn correctly form a security perspective. ANY applications affiliated with any form of ad/spyware will be classified. This is simply what's happened to MSN Plus!

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Please read the petition before saying the wrong things...

The petition is not to remove plus! from the spyware database, it's to change the "flag" from msgplus.exe (that contains no spyware) to the installer and the (optionally) installed ADWARE.

So that it doesn't remove msgplus.exe but it removes the actual adware correctly and informs the user that the installer is an optional adware bundler.

And it's Msgplus! or Plus! not MSN Plus.

Msgplus is owned by Patchou.
MSN Plus is owned by Microsoft and has nothing to do with MSN Messenger.