MSN Plus?

[Drattigan]

I recently downloaded MSN Plus, the newer thing for your Messanger that is not endorsed by Microsoft. So I was wondering, is it full of spyware? Is it dangerous for your PC?

This is a question that I find puzzling, FoxTrot said he got rid of some spyware and it buggered up MSN Plus. I can't be too sure. Your views on the matter?

http://www.msgplus.net

[Nuclear Spoon]

Just don't accept the sponsor program and you'll be fine.

[Drattigan]

Well, that's what I'm saying.
I didn't. Neither did FoxTrot, but he found spyware on his system.. deleted it and MSNPLus buggered.

[Midget]

MSN Plus! installs no spyware without your permission.

FoxTrot is a bit of a muppet anyway, he probably fucked something up. :p

[Minted]

Because MSN Plus ships with optional spyware, some programs view the whole MSN Plus folder as spyware. As such, they remove key components of MSN Plus - knackering it.

If you install it, and know you didn't install the optional spyware, tell your spyware proggie to ignore it and all will be well.

[weeling bad?]

From what I've heard, it really quite enjoys filling your cmputer with spyware.

[Al2]

Does it strike anyone else as odd that it requires a third-party unendorsed extention to the world's most popular IM chat medium (besides IRC) in order to get it to do things you would expect it to do anyway, such as chat logging and support for the /me command*?

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* Which, typically, is not supported properly. In every chat medium ever, /me will produce an announcement with your name on it, followed by the text you supply after the /me command. Thus you will write in the third person: /me is going; /me has stuff. MSN Plus, however, supports it in the first person. This means that if you were to type the above into MSN Plus, you would get <<I is going>> or <<I has stuff>>. This is stupid.

[sack the chimp]

Well I've got to say I did wonder this myself, but both Spybot and Adaware find nothing for me (i've just checked for updates and scanned with both).

I do, rather annoyingly, get an alert from The Cleaner every time i start up windows because of a change in the registry relating to MSN plus.

oh, and I think the /me command works fine if both people have plus, I'm really not sure though. It does look right on my screen when I type it, but standard msn has no way of recieving this.

[Minted]

Does it strike anyone else as odd that it requires a third-party unendorsed extention to the world's most popular IM chat medium (besides IRC) in order to get it to do things you would expect it to do anyway, such as chat logging and support for the /me command?

Yes - which is why I use GAIM (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) on the PC and ADIUM (http://www.adiumx.com/) on the mac. See?

[RobW]

It broke down my computer for a week.

Don't do it.

[Al2]

Yes - which is why I use GAIM (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) on the PC and ADIUM (http://www.adiumx.com/) on the mac. See?
Me too! Apart from the Mac bit. I don't have a Mac.

[sack the chimp]

I'd be happy if it just let me log in more often :(

[Minted]

It broke down my computer for a week.

What Happen?

Somebody set up us the bomb!

[wyrd_fish]

oh, and I think the /me command works fine if both people have plus, I'm really not sure though. It does look right on my screen when I type it, but standard msn has no way of recieving this.

it only sends it as plain text, if you send /me is awsome in msn, msn plus will highlight it propperly when it's recived, nothing special happens to it

[Al2]

If a person on MSN Plus sends a /me to a person on MSN, it does not arrive as plain text. It arrives as <<I r leet>> or something like that. Donc, it sucks.