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Milk
post May 8 2004, 06:01 PM
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This is more a warning than anything else.

It has been highlighted that fewer people than expected are aware of the 'change of direction' taken by Messenger Plus' creator Patchou.

With the release of the new msn app, I feel it important that people are aware of the new content of Patchou's app - trojans.

Patchou decided that his code wasn't enough as a community project, and therefore took on a few 'sponsors' - most notably C2Media the owner of lop.com software.

For those of you who have never heard of it, lop.com software is classified as a trojan by antivirus vendors and as a browser hijacker by antispyware vendors. You can find plenty of information about it by doing a Google search for "lop.com".

One Anti-Spyware resource tracking the dev puts it so:

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No single parasite has caused as many support threads at our message boards as lop.com (although Xupiter comes close). Ad-aware, Spybot, and all other spyware removal programs target several older variants of lop.com. It now comes in a version that is nearly impossible to detect automatically. It uses randomly named files, randomly generated CLSID identifiers, and uses activex installation methods that let them update all of their installers at once.

Before this change, the number of lop.com complaints actually had gone down because it was so easy to remove and could even be blocked beforehand. Since C2Media introduced these new versions that mutate randomly, the number of infections has become larger than ever. The only sure way to be rid of it is to ask for help at the SWI support forums.




btw - Patchou's reply ?

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To all of the people who are saying that they won't use his program because of lop.com, he has this to say, "I don't want to be rude but if you boycot version 2.10.36, you're an idiot."



- Don't use it. If you have it - uninstall.




Lop sets off AVG anti-virus here

This post has been edited by Rezza: May 9 2004, 02:50 AM


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Milk   Messenger+'s spyware   May 8 2004, 06:01 PM
SuranWrap   I remeber when MSN plus was good! I just make ...   May 8 2004, 06:25 PM
.::PHPfanatic::.   Thanks for the information Milk otherwise I wouldn...   May 8 2004, 10:42 PM
SuranWrap   I think when you uninstall it, it leaves the spywa...   May 8 2004, 11:59 PM
Milk   Patchou maintains that since during the set-up, yo...   May 9 2004, 12:56 AM
Rezza   topic title changed for clarity   May 9 2004, 02:51 AM
Milk   new thread title: Messenger+'s spyware ...   May 10 2004, 12:54 AM
——Vampyric——   Nice. I believe patchou is not doing anythi...   May 10 2004, 02:03 AM
anakinsolois   old news, can be unpinned   Jun 20 2004, 06:33 AM
GTX5_Crusader   I agree. Done. Yeah... someone lost the pin to th...   Jun 20 2004, 11:14 AM
mutinymonger   Another prog with spyware - Internet Explorer. De...   Aug 9 2004, 05:59 PM
gofikphoenix   IE doesn't have spyware when you download it, ...   Aug 9 2004, 07:19 PM
mutinymonger   I swear on my life that I did not connect to the i...   Aug 9 2004, 07:28 PM
gofikphoenix   Stop swearing Mutiny, its against the rules to cur...   Aug 12 2004, 01:26 PM
mutinymonger   I just read your post, and I didn't see mine a...   Aug 12 2004, 01:31 PM

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