anhedonia
July 22nd, 2003, 05:49
Well, firstly, don't ever touch Messenger Plus for MSN6. It is EXTREMELY buggy. After installing this program on the recommendation of a friend, I (or rather my computer) experienced the following problems/annoyances:
- On startup, twenty plus "Dial-Up Connection" alerts pop up. Now, I am used to ONE popping up, but over twenty? After closing them all, I get a "$**$*%$#% has crashed" alert - each time it is a different, unrecognised program that has not ever been installed on this computer (Evidently something the MSN Plus program installed).
- Messenger Plus stuck about 10 ugly, advertising icons to my desktop.
- I have received alerts which are actually advertisements.
- It has changed my previous IE homepage from Google to some stupid advertising search engine. When I change it back to Google, and then click "Home" it still takes me to the stupid advertising engine.
- When I uninstalled the stupid program, I typed "Recycle Bin" into the "My Computer" window and instead it automatically loaded their advertising search engine page. I thought "Hmm, okay, I made a mistake" but I tried it several times, checking carefully, and no mistake - it was another bug in their stupid program.
- Now I have (via the proper way) uninstalled the program, emptied my Recycle Bin of all files that I know to be associated with it, including the original .exe file that was downloaded to install it from. However, I am still experiencing half of these problems. What more can I do to remove all traces of it???
- On startup, twenty plus "Dial-Up Connection" alerts pop up. Now, I am used to ONE popping up, but over twenty? After closing them all, I get a "$**$*%$#% has crashed" alert - each time it is a different, unrecognised program that has not ever been installed on this computer (Evidently something the MSN Plus program installed).
- Messenger Plus stuck about 10 ugly, advertising icons to my desktop.
- I have received alerts which are actually advertisements.
- It has changed my previous IE homepage from Google to some stupid advertising search engine. When I change it back to Google, and then click "Home" it still takes me to the stupid advertising engine.
- When I uninstalled the stupid program, I typed "Recycle Bin" into the "My Computer" window and instead it automatically loaded their advertising search engine page. I thought "Hmm, okay, I made a mistake" but I tried it several times, checking carefully, and no mistake - it was another bug in their stupid program.
- Now I have (via the proper way) uninstalled the program, emptied my Recycle Bin of all files that I know to be associated with it, including the original .exe file that was downloaded to install it from. However, I am still experiencing half of these problems. What more can I do to remove all traces of it???