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Is the problem something like this?
Tried this?
http://www.mess.be/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=576
Daniel’s patch. Removes MSN button, Search, Beta tag and ads. Sometimes it doesn’t work for tabs, but you can get them from registry.
I got it last night with Kaspersky AV, removed 5-6 files, and then scanned it with Ad-Aware, Spy Sweeper, Spybot and Spyware Doctor. Seems to be fine now.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Yeah, I suggested that, yet he claims that he can’t boot it in safe mode (in other words, doesn’t know how).
Oh, right! Thanks! Man, I was sure it was to go to all numbered PerPassportSettings… must be getting old.
Yeah, but that is probably nothing more than an automated response. It is one of the email templates that MS sends to you several hours after you wrote a bug report.
Quote:quote:Our technical support staff are currently working with a fix and further investigating the conflicts with the latest build.It’s got nothing to do with the build. If you want to check, you can download previos versions of Messenger, or the newest BETA 7 version. When this was happenning to my msgr, I must’ve tried 3 different versions. It is more to do with your MSN profile, and right now, something is preventing email alerts.
Still, doesn’t hurt to let them know. Hopefully it’ll get sorted out soon.
I found my original topic about this problem:
https://bigblueball.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9555
Hope it helps.
Sorry for asking what is probably a mindbogglingly obvious thing, but…
“Messenger viruses” can only infect your PC if someone you’re chatting with someone, and they try to send you an virus-installation file, and you accept and run it, right? There is no other way, am I correct?
I had an exact same problem about 6-7 months ago. Little “You have received a new message from…” pop-up notifier suddenly stopped appearing. Whatsmore, when you open Messenger Window, the “No new messages” sign was not getting updated. I would exit the Messenger, sign in again, and then it would say “1 New Message”. When I click, and view the message, that Messenger window does not get updated, so it still used to say “1 New Message”. Only after closing/signing in again, it would say “No new messages”.
I tried it at work, at home, and from a friend, with Messenger 6.2, and two other previous versions going back to v4, from three different PCs. Removed/reinstalled countless times. Then I signed in with my other hotmail address – and pop-ups were working! Signed back in with my usual name, but nothing.
Posted an issue here, I found other 5-6 people who had the same problem, but the majority is just fine. When I saw this message, I immediately tested it, but it works fine for me now. My guess is that they’re upgrading your Hotmail Inbox to 250 Mb, because 2-3 weeks after the problem disappeared for me, I got a larger Inbox, and this somehow messes up the new mail notifier. In any case, I think it’s a problem with MSN internet service, absolutely nothing to do with your PC. What I did though, is send 2-3 bug reports to Microsoft, from
http://uk.support.msn.com/contactus_emailsupport.aspx?productkey=MESSENGER&ct=eformfree
After several automated replies, I was finally getting some feedback from developers, however, make sure that you specify when you write to them that it is MSN MESSENGER, not MSN EXPLORER that you run. No matter how many billion times I used to write this to them, I would always get an email from some other guy at Microsoft, asking me for MSN Explorer log.
Anyway, the problem “fixed itself” in about 2-3 weeks time, but there’s no harm in sending them few bug reports.
It runs just fine, only one thing:
When I install it on WinXP, no problems.
When I isntall it on Win2K (SP4), near the very end of the installation, I get a message that IEXPLORE.EXE has produced a fatal error and it will be shut down. But message Plus still works OK?
Would it be worth at all installing this, since I have v7 build 0205 with nicely removed ad banners, tabs and Search button, thanx to detn8r’s patch?
