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Recent versions of Windows Defender also stopped detecting the Messenger Plus! installer as being potentially dangerous. On September 23, 2005, just 3 days after the petition was mailed to Redmond from Canada, Microsoft released new definitions for Windows Defender that fixed the false threat detection affecting the Messenger Plus! executable together with other detection improvements. The petition, which had 401,683 signatures and was 10,137 pages long in total, was sent to Redmond on Septem stating that Messenger Plus! should not be labeled as being a threat.
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Formerly, the software came bundled with optional adware software developed by Circle Development Ltd.Īs of August 17, 2005, the Messenger Plus! website contained a petition to Microsoft's anti-spyware division regarding Windows Defender's (known as Microsoft AntiSpyware at the time) detection of the Messenger Plus! executable as spyware and subsequent warning that Messenger Plus! would attempt to install spyware at runtime (post-installation), rather than the setup program itself that contained the installer for the threat detected. When developing Messenger Plus! became a full-time job, a form of revenue was added to keep the software free. Yuna Software has offices in several places in the world and has an office in Montreal, also known as Kimahri Software, where a development team continued to develop Messenger Plus!. įinancial details or names of the people behind the new company are not disclosed.
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In Q1 of 2011 Paciullo officially declared he had left the company and that this chapter of his professional life was closed.
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In Q4 of 2009 Paciullo announced he is no longer in full control of the product and Messenger Plus! is now owned by Yuna Software Limited. He started developing Plus! as a hobby next to his day job as a developer, but soon maintaining the Messenger Plus! software became a full-time job. He was born in France and currently resides in Canada. Messenger Plus! was originally created in 2001 by Cyril Paciullo, who is better known by the pseudonym "Patchou".
Messenger Plus! is available in 22 languages:
For browsing and searching all saved logs. Event logging and chat logging in either plain text or HTML with optional encryption.Running multiple instances of Windows Live Messenger with different accounts.A set of text formatting codes similar to BBCode (people who don't use Messenger Plus! will still see standard unformatted text with the BBCode still in place).Messenger Plus! generally expands the features of Windows Live Messenger 2009 (9.0) and 2011. 3.3 Discontinuation of the Circle Development package.Volunteers from the Messenger Plus! community around the world develop skins and scripts for submission into the database of the website for the software.
It has become one of the most widely used add-ons for Microsoft's IM clients, citing over 62 million users as of February 2010. In 2011 the name was changed back to "Messenger Plus!" again. It later changed its name to "Messenger Plus!" and then, for the release of the new Windows Live Messenger client, "Messenger Plus! Live" was chosen.
The add-on was first released in May 2001 under the name "The Messenger Plus! Extension" for MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger. These controls affect Messenger's behaviour and appearance, often through additional dialog boxes. The software provides additional functionality to Microsoft's Instant messaging client, Windows Live Messenger, by adding its own controls to the main interface. Messenger Plus! (formerly known as Messenger Plus! Live, commonly abbreviated MsgPlus, Plus!, or incorrectly as MSN Plus) is an add-on for Windows Live Messenger and Skype.
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