If you don’t use an anti-virus and your friend is trying to send you a file over Windows Live Messenger, you probably noticed that it requires you to have an anti-virus installed or the download will fail. Sure, it’s a good protection I guess, but providing an option to disable that functionality would have been appreciated…
Fortunately, you can bypass this protection quite easily.I made a little C++ .exe that simply returns 0 and exit. Basically, an empty project in Visual Studio! Then you simply assign that .exe as your anti-virus in Windows Live Messenger.
1) Download the app: DoNothing.zip
2) Extract the .exe to a location of your choice (My Documents).
3) Set the anti-virus in Windows Live Messenger:
- Go to Tools > Options > File Transfer
- Check the Scan files for viruses using option
- Click Browse… and select the DoNothing.exe application you extracted.
Windows Live Messenger - File Transfer Options
Enjoy file transfers without an anti-virus 
#1 by Jason W on July 24th, 2009
I like this. Much better than the windows one live care that takes 10 minutes to complete..
Thanks
#2 by Js on July 28th, 2009
Nice trick there :thumbup;
#3 by Ozgur on September 7th, 2009
Haha!!
Nice one bro.
I hate anti-virus programs and dont use one.
This ~loving~ new msn demanded users to have one!
Thanx for solving the issue.