Introduction
After one year of the release of Windows Live Messenger 2009 (version 14.0), I finally downloaded and installed it and felt that there’s much to do on it, including writing new codes to automatically patch your WLM 8.5 as introduced in “Windows Live Messenger 8.5 is Resurrected”. Another thought came into my mind that I used to patch, in other words, modify, certain binary files that were digitally signed. This is not a good thing in fact. Microsoft signed those files so that you could always verify if they were modified, say being infected by virii. If a user patched the signed files with Purifier or any other programs doing ad removal, she wouldn’t be able to tell if they were further modified afterwards by unauthorized source. Thus Purifier must take another method to patch without modifying installed files to protect its users.
Purifier 2.0.0 is finally out to achieve the goals we just mentioned and works for all WLM versions by now, namely 8.5 and 2009. Being rewritten from scratch and only patched in memory, all WLM files on hard disks remain in tact to preserve integrity. Also Purifier doesn’t patch UI directly anymore, which is ineffective; it now patches patterns used to parse ad URL’s, making itself robust against various versions of WLM.
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Usage
Purifier is a launcher of WLM. All you need to do is run it as WLM, and then everything goes as it was and you will see a clean WLM window pops up without ads.
Features
- Removes ads
- Stops older WLM versions from forcing users to update
- Enables older WLM versions to have multiple instances
- Modifies no system files and you can switch to run original WLM with ads anytime you want
Known Issues
- As VirtualBox doesn’t support hardware breakpoint in software emulation mode, Purifier 2.0.0 doesn’t work under such environment and condition.
