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Supersonicdarky
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O.P. msgplus.exe
This thread inspired me to search the net for msgplus.exe. I found this. I don't know anything about copyright, but is someone else allowed to use the same name?

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CLSID     msgplus.exe     Adult content dialler
CLSID     msgplus.exe     Premium rate adult content dialer. Note - this is NOT the MSN Messenger 'MessengerPlus' extension

08-22-2005 09:41 PM
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RE: msgplus.exe
It's obviously some person/company who is in the pornography business using msgplus.exe as the name of the program to get the content. Although, I don't know if the phrase "msgplus" is copyright is it?
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08-22-2005 09:43 PM
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RE: msgplus.exe
even if it wasnt legal for someone else to use that executable name, porn dialers dont really care. they just want you to connect to their expensive "Service". there really malware.
08-22-2005 09:44 PM
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RE: msgplus.exe
Not to mention all other variants used by people to either profit from msgplus's succes or either to give msgplus a bad name, like

msnplus.exe      added by the RBOT-MU WORM!
msnplus1.exe     added by the W32/Sdbot-XQ worm.
msgplus32.exe   added by a variant of the SPYBOT WORM!
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08-22-2005 10:00 PM
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