Messenger Plus

Jaffa.

Is this a safe program to download? I want to change my colour of font in Messenger however "messenger plus" has an option of Adware!?

By font I mean when I'm talking to people as the windows colours seem a bit boring. If theres another way to do this via registry pleasee let me know lol

gaming_guy

its fine as long as you don't install the sponsor program.

the installer won't let you go any further until you select what option you want

Marty_J

I wouldn't touch it with a barge-pole myself. I like to avoid companies that try to push malware on people.

You could give Pidgin or aMSN a try.

The official MSN client is so horrible it doesn't bear thinking about.

samhale

MSN Plus is perfectly safe if you don't install the adware.
I don't think it's very good giving people the option though.

gaming_guy

samhale wrote: »

MSN Plus is perfectly safe if you don't install the adware.
I don't think it's very good giving people the option though.

I'd just like to point out that having a link in your signature is against the forum rules

DCFC79

There meebo or even web messanger which are web based msn programs

Jaffa.

Marty_J wrote: »

You could give Pidgin or aMSN a try.

The official MSN client is so horrible it doesn't bear thinking about.

The official one being the Windows live messenger one? Tell me more, why is it horrible? I don't want horrible programs on my computer

Whats Trillian like?

Marty_J

Jaffa. wrote: »

The official one being the Windows live messenger one? Tell me more, why is it horrible? I don't want horrible programs on my computer

Nothing nefarious; it's just big and slow and ugly and generally horrible. Pretty much the norm for Microsoft.

You'd be well within your rights to disagree with me, I just don't think it's the best IM application by a long shot.

Whats Trillian like?

I've never used it, so I wouldn't know I'm afraid. I use Adium on my Mac, which is pretty wonderful. It allows you to sign in to lots of different IM services at once, so I can talk to people on MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Google Talk, etc, all in the one application. It also has a cute green duck, which is always a bonus.

Pidgin does much the same thing on Windows and Linux.

aliEnRIK

Jaffa. wrote: »

Whats Trillian like?

Very basic but very useful in that it combines so many of the messenger formats

It can also be used to hack into sites! (Not that id know anything about that mind )

Jaffa.

Marty_J wrote: »

Nothing nefarious; it's just big and slow and ugly and generally horrible. Pretty much the norm for Microsoft.

You'd be well within your rights to disagree with me, I just don't think it's the best IM application by a long shot.

I've never used it, so I wouldn't know I'm afraid. I use Adium on my Mac, which is pretty wonderful. It allows you to sign in to lots of different IM services at once, so I can talk to people on MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Google Talk, etc, all in the one application. It also has a cute green duck, which is always a bonus.

Pidgin does much the same thing on Windows and Linux.

Fair enough, I would'nt say live messengers that good anyway. Where's the Windows version of Adium at!!
By the looks of it Pidgin and Trillian lack the webcam and mic features which is something I use... Unless I pay up for Trillian which i'm not going to do.

I put that messenger plus on, it's not bad it does the job. Bit tacky though

Marty_J

Jaffa. wrote: »

By the looks of it Pidgin and Trillian lack the webcam and mic features which is something I use... Unless I pay up for Trillian which i'm not going to do.

aMSN has webcam support.

Personally I use Skype for all my webcam needs.