So, I've gotten sort of used to the new Messenger by now, but one thing still drives me up the wall. It's the inability to send stuff like .zip  and .mp3 or .wma files without having a virus scanner, or the fact that messenger removes or blocks files that it finds scary when it receives them. (The latter I find the weirdest: why does it freaking bother transferring that stuff if it is going to get rid of the file upon arrival anyway? Why accept the transfer in the first place?)

But, all this stuff has been in messenger for ages, and I can understand why, but.. for the love of God. We're at version nine by now. After all this time, there's still no way to disable that security crap? Was there nobody who thought that it might be a good idea to add a button that says "Yes, I absolutely understand that receiving this MP3 will physically destroy my PC and give me syphilis, and I fully take the blame, so disable the file blocking feature now"? Microsoft actually enables people to turn off UAC, and apparently encourages people to do so by catering for the UAC-less, but in Messenger? No man, you can't send that .zip of your visual studio project. That stuff is dangerous! Can't turn this warning off either, it's for your own good.

It's insane. I'm constantly renaming files so that they have a .messengermustdie extension before I send them. I've been doing this for years. What on earth is the Live Messenger team thinking?