Messenger Plus! 3 BETA Review!

[KennyERJ]

I've been using MSN Plus! for a long time now and have never had any problems with it. As long as you don't accept the SponosorWare, it doesn't install anything else on your computer but MSN Plus! I have 3 different updated programs that I use for checking for Spyware/Adware/Viruses which are Ad-Aware, Norton Anti-Virus 2005 (this version checks for spyware/adware too) and Microsoft Anti-Spyware (beta). The Ad-Aware and Norton have never detected any kind of spyware/adware. I will tell you that the Microsoft Anti-Spyware WILL detect it (the whole program) as spyware but that is only because Microsoft owns the MSN Messenger and your really not suppose to alter it in any way, so any program that alters the Messenger will be considered Spyware by Microsoft. But since Patchou met with Microsoft executives recently, maybe that will be changing. I mean come on, do you think 2 million people a month would be downloading a program that contains spyware/adware? I don't think so. I KNOW I wouldn't. I've also recommended it to and had family download it with no problems. Another thing I wouldn't do if it contained spyware/adware. Just my experience with and opinion on MSN Plus!

[pikayugi]

Originally Posted by EvilSeph

Messenger Plus! is the most stable MSN Messenger add-on out there. Even in Beta it's ultra-stable. I don't know what you did wrong but Messenger Plus! doesn't alter any desktop icons. Nor did the old version have ad-ware without the sponsor.

None of these facts are facts at all. A community of 1 million against your lone voice is insignificant.

Your voice is Insignificant to me, And you shoud really go to work with patchou.

We're not lying when we tell you that is unstable, just because we see problems with it doesn't mean it's ****in unreal. A comunity of one million? I don't give a damn, You can defend it, you can humillate me all you want, but the facts are real that MSN plus Patchou is useless. I did not did Nothing wrong, I think Your head is wrong and if you want to ban me after this then be my guest, But I'm not gonna stand while you say My opinion is insignificant just because you idolize Patchou and his products. Open your eyes at last, advisor and stop humillating others to get your opinion. Because your experience with plus are not fact at alls as well. People like you remind me, of the errors high school teachers have in educating the children.

Like I said Ban me if you want to, but I will not let you attack me personally againt, You idiot.

[ShawnZ]

I swear, some of you types are going to get me in an anger management class one of these days

Originally Posted by nionio

Boo. Hiss. Messenger Plus! sucks ass. I just spent the last couple hours removing the spyware it installed on the two computers that happened to have Messenger Plus! installed.

Answer: don't accept it...

I declined it when I installed (duh), yet I have spyware/adware (it's all the same sh** to me). I did let Messenger Plus update to a new minor version after install.

thats funny, because its worked for thousands upon thousands of people perfectly, you can even disassemble the installer and prove it to yourself if you like...

Also, this spyware is particularly heinous. That gawdamn search bar it puts in IE and the gigantic series of bookmarks it persists was very annoying

Its just as big as any other toolbar, but yes I agree its quite useless

The uninstall instructions so graciously posted by "Patchou" on his/her forum simply did not work at all the way they were supposed to (my Messenger Plus! installer didn't seem to think I had the sponsor installed).

if you READ, you would know you musn't try to remove it with third party tools otherwise it wont work

It took a couple reboots and no less than sweeps by 3 spyware removal programs to get this far.

Good job, make it worse.

Of course, I didn't figure out that it was Messenger Plus! that was re-running this crap after I cleaned it off until midway through the process, thanks to numerous posts by other people who were also side-swiped by "Patchou's" shoddy software.

'Messenger Plus!' has nothing to do at all with the sponsor, it doesnt even know its ever installed. Why would it magically reinstall the sponsor?

Anyway, just a warning to others. Goodbye and good riddance Messenger Plus! Guess I'll give Trillian a try.

You are disgraceful.

Patchou doesnt have a company. AFAIK, patchou doesn't even have a job. He's just an average person, probably around your age, that wants to make a program for everyone.

He needs income obviously, he INCLUDES AN OPTIONAL SPONSOR. If you **** up while removing it, THATS YOUR FAULT, ISNT IT.

Originally Posted by pikayugi

Your voice is Insignificant to me, And you shoud really go to work with patchou.

We're not lying when we tell you that is unstable, just because we see problems with it doesn't mean it's ****in unreal. A comunity of one million? I don't give a damn, You can defend it, you can humillate me all you want, but the facts are real that MSN plus Patchou is useless. I did not did Nothing wrong, I think Your head is wrong and if you want to ban me after this then be my guest, But I'm not gonna stand while you say My opinion is insignificant just because you idolize Patchou and his products. Open your eyes at last, advisor and stop humillating others to get your opinion. Because your experience with plus are not fact at alls as well. People like you remind me, of the errors high school teachers have in educating the children.

Like I said Ban me if you want to, but I will not let you attack me personally againt, You idiot.

A community of one million says its not buggy, a bunch of trolls on some forum say it is. GEEEEEEEEEE......

[detn8r]

Originally Posted by pikayugi

Your voice is Insignificant to me, And you shoud really go to work with patchou.

We're not lying when we tell you that is unstable, just because we see problems with it doesn't mean it's ****in unreal. A comunity of one million? I don't give a damn, You can defend it, you can humillate me all you want, but the facts are real that MSN plus Patchou is useless. I did not did Nothing wrong, I think Your head is wrong and if you want to ban me after this then be my guest, But I'm not gonna stand while you say My opinion is insignificant just because you idolize Patchou and his products. Open your eyes at last, advisor and stop humillating others to get your opinion. Because your experience with plus are not fact at alls as well. People like you remind me, of the errors high school teachers have in educating the children.

Like I said Ban me if you want to, but I will not let you attack me personally againt, You idiot.

The teachers in your education system must be below public standards if you still do not know how to spell words.
If you want to make an argument against something, you are welcome to. No one here is going to idolise or marginalize you for that. But when you want to be completely ignorant AND arrogant and provide facts that truly, make you look ignorant that just assures anyone reading your post that you really don't know what you are talking about.

I have worked on the beta testing process with Messenger Plus. And yet, when that beta was released, I hardly found any problems with the software. The MSN Messenger community is HUGE. The Messenger Plus beta testing also includes around 4 or 5 Microsoft MVP's and the author behind mess.be. That being said, it has some huge talent and very intelligent people who use their talent to make sure the program is nothing but perfect.

As stated above, Patchou was dedicated enough to quit his day job to do what he loves, and that is program. And his application has been downloaded by over a million people. It truly makes you look ignorant when you can believe that hundrends of thousands of people can understand to read EULAS and TOS before their install software. That in itself proves that you are ignorant if you cannot read instructions before installing.

The "ADWARE" which is completely different than "SPYWARE" (and if you don't understand the difference between the two, than I suggest you Google yourself an answer). And best of all, Messenger Plus can have NO adware (for free!) if you can only be smart enough to read instructions and choose not to install the adware when you install Plus.

Now if you were intelligent enough to follow VERY *and I mean very friggen simple* instructions on how to remove the adware you shouldn't have anything to bitch about. Yet, people choose not to read those instructions, and we then have people like above, complaining and unable to complete a sentence with proper spelling, grammer and the works.

[xxDarkAngelxx]

i seem to have a problem using messenger plus with msn 7.5. i unstalled and removed msn 7.5 from the computer and registry because of a connection problem. i did a clean install and it worked great until i installed messenger plus again. as soon as i did the connection issue started again and i removed msg plus and it started working fine. i love msg plus and you have any idea what the conflict is and can fix it i would love to hear from you.