Shoutbox

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You may delete this but it does not affect the Plus! Network search engine or home page.  You also can continue to enjoy the Messenger Plus! software itself.  As Cookie Revised wrote, Note: You do not need to uninstall Messenger Plus! itself for any of this. The Searchbar and Network sponsors are completely separate things.

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I uninstalled Messenger plus because it did not work.  Problem: I installed it, rebooted, opened MSN, and it would not log in at all, it went back to the login screen and did its whole loop again.  Uninstalled it and everything worked again. Everything, including toolbar and Plus Network page were still there loading.  I even uninstalled the sponsor program from the control panel, and deleted it further making sure it was gone, and several weeks later, as in Last night, it showed up again.  What kind of invasive software is linked to Messenger Plus?

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Since October 2011, uninstalling the Messenger Plus! Community Smartbar rolls back both the Homepage and Default search settings to their default values. However, if these settings remain after the Smartbar has been removed and searches are still sent to Plus! Network, we will soon update the help page with further instructions.

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Since October?  Really, because...this Was late November Early December...Nothing rolled back and problems showed up again last night, so I think you best talk to, I don't know, you must have sponsors hosting mirrors to download from, and each one is random, but you may want to make sure they got the memo.

I don't appreciate malware, and since this is malicious, that is what I will call it.

Anyway, I had to completely uninstall firefox, deleting profile in the hidden appdata folders as well, and had to start with a fresh install just to get things back to normal.  You may want to look into that or have fun explaining to people in the help section, that seems to be the only way to get their settings back to normal.