Messengers and AntiVirus software

Not meaning to change the subject,, or get it going in another direction,
Seams messenger needs to be addressed in a version specific way,, version of messenger and the OS involved,,
Unless we can find a common csdl or reg tweak to disable and enable it,,
Or like you say a security package is starting it ?

I was having messenger called up when opening outlook
until we updated it, even after that it was called up when I created a new account,or just because it wanted to,sporadicly, until tweaked, probably the same edit
you or somebody else referred to in the other thread , I used
Outlook Express 5.0 Tweak'r: http://accesscodes.hypermart.net/product04.html
I wouldn't advise using this on XP systems

Ive never seen it since but we don't use outlook much,, nor messenger


Someone here did suggest simply rename the exe,or the whole folder, when your not using it ,, gee works great to

The only problem Ive had with it,, is it will open when viewing hotmail..and until we updated messenger would not want to close even after IE was closed

seams if you delete the hot mail control that will stop it,,
theirs two of them
MSNMessenger.HotmailControl
MSNMessenger.HotmailControl.1

 

I have been using MSN Messenger for 3 years and have never had it want to continually keep starting up, unless I set it to. I have used Norton AV, which came installed on the system, AVG and eTrust AV. None of them made MSN Messenger sign in automatically or run in the background, although before removing them both, Norton would activate Windows Messenger. Neither AVG or eTrust have an option to monitor instant messaging programs that I have found, but the IM programs have options to have file transfers scanned, which by using that option, does not cause the AV to automatically start the IM program.