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That’s right, the long anticipated Messenger Plus! version 3 has been just released minutes ago. Be the first to download it NOW, and tell us your thoughts on the best damn addition to MSN Messenger known to man!
i guess the thing that bugs me is the fact that.. the installer takes time to load.. like it seriously takes time.. has a loading screen
the installer takes longer than previous versions.. nothing wrong with it.. its just I must know.. why is it doing it when previous versions did not need to do this?
It didn’t take that long to load for me. I just know this time they put an installer instead of previous versions where it just didn’t show anything. I like it better now that it shows a real installer. Patchou has done another amazing job. I love the whole interface and everything. It’s awesome! It was well worth waiting for!
here we go again…
Messenger Plus! comes with an optional sponsor program. This program will show ads from time to time on your computer and will change your start page in Internet Explorer.
The Sponsor program is not forced upon your system. During setup, you could simply uncheck the sponsor checkbox when requested to not install the sponsor program. As far as I know, the program changes the home page and occasionally pops up ads.
Therefore, to state it blankly, Messenger plus does NOT install any spyware, but on your authorisation, installs a sponsor program.
That is somewhat correct. To make sure you are aware of your actions, the installer NEEDS you to either choose “I ACCEPT, install Messenger Plus! with the sponsor program” or “I refuse, do not install the sponsor program”. Without your interaction, the installer will not continue.
Following are instructions on how to remove the Messenger Plus! OPTIONAL sponsor:
Removing the OPTIONAL sponsor program bundled with Messenger Plus!
Quote:quote:*** NOTE: DO NOT USE AD-AWARE OR SPYBOT TO REMOVE THE SPONSOR, DO NOT TRY TO REMOVE THE SPONSOR PACKAGE BY YOURSELF, AND/OR DO NOT EDIT THE REGISTRY TO REMOVE THE SPONSOR PACKAGE THIS WILL DAMAGE THE SPONSOR PACKAGE AND MAY PREVENT YOU FROM REMOVING IT CORRECTLY. ***The only official removal method is by uninstalling Messenger Plus! To do so, go to your Start menu, settings, control panel. Click on Add/Remove Programs, scroll down until you find Messenger Plus!, double click it.
The “Messenger Plus! – Setup” is now displayed. Click on the Uninstall button. After a couple of seconds, the program will ask you if you want to keep your preferences, it is suggested to say “Yes” if you plan to reinstall Messenger Plus! in the future (this question is not related to the sponsor program).
After that the sponsor removal screen is now displayed (Note: If you can’t see it, search for it in your taskbar). As a security measure against bots, you are required to enter the code that is shown on the sponsor removal screen. If you entered the code correctly, the program will ask you to confirm that you want to uninstall. You must answer “Yes” to this question, else, you won’t have another chance of uninstalling.
To complete the uninstallation, follow the instructions that are displayed (the first one is to close all your Internet Explorer windows, that’s very important). When everything is complete, restart your computer. This should work, we’ve tried it loads of times and Messenger Plus!’s testers are required to test out the sponsor installation/uninstllation capabilities.
Reboot.
*** NOTE: DO NOT USE AD-AWARE OR SPYBOT TO REMOVE THE SPONSOR, DO NOT TRY TO REMOVE THE SPONSOR PACKAGE BY YOURSELF, AND/OR DO NOT EDIT THE REGISTRY TO REMOVE THE SPONSOR PACKAGE THIS WILL DAMAGE THE SPONSOR PACKAGE AND MAY PREVENT YOU FROM REMOVING IT CORRECTLY. ***
Method 2: Removing the sponsor if you’ve attempted to manually remove it
Quote:quote:Method 2: Note: ONLY use this method if you have tried to remove the sponsor by using 3rd party applications or editing the registry.Uninstall Messenger Plus! by going to your Start menu, settings, control panel. Click on Add/Remove Programs, scroll down until you find Messenger Plus!, double click it.
The “Messenger Plus! – Setup” is now displayed. Click on the Uninstall button. After a couple of seconds, the program will ask you if you want to keep your preferences, it is suggested to say “Yes” if you plan to reinstall Messenger Plus! in the future (this question is not related to the sponsor program).
After that the sponsor removal screen is now displayed (Note: If you can’t see it, search for it in your taskbar). As a security measure against bots, you are required to enter the code that is shown on the sponsor removal screen. If you entered the code correctly, the program will ask you to confirm that you want to uninstall. You must answer “Yes” to this question, else, you won’t have another chance of uninstalling.
To complete the uninstallation, follow the instructions that are displayed (the first one is to close all your Internet Explorer windows, that’s very important). When everything is complete, restart your computer. This should work, we’ve tried it loads of times and Messenger Plus!’s testers are required to test out the sponsor installation/uninstllation capabilities.
Reboot.
Once done install Messenger Plus! WITH THE SPONSOR. Reboot
Next, Uninstall Messenger Plus! by following these instructions:Click on Add/Remove Programs, scroll down until you find Messenger Plus!, double click it.
The “Messenger Plus! – Setup” is now displayed. Click on the Uninstall button. After a couple of seconds, the program will ask you if you want to keep your preferences, it is suggested to say “Yes” if you plan to reinstall Messenger Plus! in the future (this question is not related to the sponsor program).
After that the sponsor removal screen is now displayed (Note: If you can’t see it, search for it in your taskbar). As a security measure against bots, you are required to enter the code that is shown on the sponsor removal screen. If you entered the code correctly, the program will ask you to confirm that you want to uninstall. You must answer “Yes” to this question, else, you won’t have another chance of uninstalling.
To complete the uninstallation, follow the instructions that are displayed (the first one is to close all your Internet Explorer windows, that’s very important)[/b]. When everything is complete, restart your computer. This should work, we’ve tried it loads of times and Messenger Plus!’s testers are required to test out the sponsor installation/uninstllation capabilities.
Reboot.
Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way..
Patchou decided to bundle an EXTREMELY modified lop.com sponsor with Messenger Plus! Note, I said EXTREMELY modified. Patchou vigorously negotiated with lop.com to remove the “explicit” content in their sponsor (although some anti-virus and anti-spyware software may still give FALSE warnings, details below). I would just like to take the time..to make you see that Patchou has no obligation to continue production and/or development of Messenger Plus!…and by including a sponsor, he can continue to distribute Messenger Plus! to the public for free. He’s done all this for you..please..just cut him some slack.
When using either custom install or automatic install, Messenger Plus! will always prompt you with the sponsor agreement. Only when you click one of the two options, the install will go to the next step… It is completely at your discretion that the sponsor does what it does. When you’ve agreed to install the sponsor, no one but yourself is under any obligation. Thus, the sponsor is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL; Patchou has given you the complete choice of installing the sponsor or not, whilst still installing Messenger Plus! without any limitations whats-so-ever.
Furthermore, just to clear things up. The sponsor is in no way a trojan or spyware. Anti-Virus vendors have classified lop as a trojan whilst Anti-Spyware vendors have classified lop as spyware, this is in no way true for the lop package that comes with Messenger Plus!. As I have already informed you Patchou is using a HIGHLY modified sponsor package with Messenger Plus! He has also fought vigorously to have Messenger Plus! re-labeled from trojan and spyware to harmless software..but most vendors have refused (in mock ignorance).
I assure you my instructions above work. As I am an official Messenger Plus! tester (contacting me about it will result in a blatant ignore), I install the sponsor with EVERY build I recieve to insure no one suffers from any possible sponsor-won’t-install bug. And contrary to belief, those steps above work flawlessly.
No offense intended, nor do I wish to provoke anyone with this post. If it does provoke anyone or offend anyone, I apologise. However I request that the staff contact me first before removing or editing my post..thanks.
Regards,
EvilSeph
– Concerned Messenger Plus! support channel staff and user(s)..Quote:quote:Originally posted by trickmaster410when you download messenger plus doesn’t it put a whole bunch of spyware on your computer:confused:
You’re extremely right, that explains why I uninstalled it months ago and spent 2 hours trying to remove the spywares. Plus I had to log in on safe mode to do so, since some of them start upon start-up.
As in features, it has almost all what you need to make it a complete instant messenger, but no to adwares and no to popup windows.
I decided to have a little piece of mind so I uninstalled it.
P.S. I wouldn’t recommend you to play with the registery if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Setup Looks Great! and Works Great… Easy option for no “sponsor” ware… But msngr plus process keeps running in the back ground, even if messenger is closed… waste of my memory :(.. Anyways, you can sacrifice 3MB.. thats no big deal if you are an MSN lover.
Surely a great add-onTommYNandA
Quote:quote:you can sacrifice 3MBNaaaa… that’s a common mistake. Never trust what the Task Manager is reporting to you. Windows rarely unallocates anything as long as its not needed. I’ve run several heavy-load tests and when MsgPlus.exe doesn’t take more than 120KB of memory (which is just right, it does absolutely nothing but sitting around waiting for MSN Messenger to be launched). Don’t worry about it, the memory impact of this process is irrelevant, that’s and that’S why it’s still here :).
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