Windows Messenger
 

I seem to remember that there are two types of MS Windows Messenger- one good, and the other associated with spyware. Am I right?

There's the Messenger service, which is bad.

There's MSN Messenger - which is for IM / chat. Not as bad, but I prefer Trillian !

Yep - there has been a lot of confusion between the two in the past.

MSN messenger (usually just abbreviated to 'MSN') is very widely used - myself and a good number of other prooners use it to keep in touch with each other.

Official site here.

Funny, but since the big crash of 2005, I have reinstalled and yah de dah de dah,, but although I sign out of MSN Messenger 7.5 in order to concentrate on the bizz in hand, I still see people signing in, as though I were connected to same.

Answers on a postcard please, to

Conan

after arrival of a new m/c I started using Windows Messenger by mistake ..... all my old buddies on MSN mess were visible but in a very different format and nowhere near as good ..... then realized what was going on so back to MSN for me ......

I tend to use This to remove windows messenger from the pc and just have MSN installed
Max

Nice little touch on MSN 8.0 which I'm currently beta testing, is that you can send messages whilst appearing offline - great if you just want to chat to one person without all the other, welll meaning friends jumping in and saying 'Hi'!

What is bad about/ wromg with Windows Messenger?

Timcat, that sounds great, been waiting since Version 1.1 :8 for them to allow users to do that.