Simple plug in to do - seeking "hello world" examples msvc++ 6.0

A few of my peers and I got committed to monitoring exodus pretty much 
around the clock.  A plug in would sure make life easier.  I don't know 
anything at all about exodus plug ins and the doc available just isn't 
clicking for me because I'm never written a com interface.

I am seeking some "hello world" level examples from those that have already 
been there, done that.  I'm planning on using MSVC++ V6.0.  I want to 
create a plug in that:

1) Monitors the rooms I've joined for certain key words and then takes some 
action based on those words.

2) Does pretty much the same thing if anybody initiates a private chat 
conversation with me directly.

The action I'm contemplating is to text message myself on my cell phone so 
I know that there's something actionable going on. I have that part already 
done in several different widgets that I use.  No problem there.

If somebody has some rudimentary plug in code to get me started I'd sure 
appreciate a pointer to it.

Thanks -
Scotch

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Funny story.  I've looked at the doc before and since I didn't know 
anything about it I approached this problem another way.  I got winpcap and 
wrote a specialized ethernet sniffer to grab the tcp/ip packets coming into 
the local port owned by exodus.exe.  Figured out how to tear the packets 
apart and get at the data.  My plan was to reverse engineer enough of the 
XML to figure out what I needed to do.  Simple.  Only took me a few days of 
chipping away at it.  Last night I got it working and discovered that the 
packets are ENCRYPTED.  Now I either have to figure out how PGP is 
implemented and used with exodus OR write the plug in.