Messenger Pop-ups

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J. Spencer

How can I get rid of these messenger popups that tell you
you have a security breach. Destroyads.com and
fightpopups.com are selling a service to get rid of these
popups. This is getting to be very annoying. I started
receiving these after I installed the service pack 4 and
the blaster worm patch.
 
To eliminate or reduce pop ups of various types you need to install a
firewall ,
either a personal one or a internet device at your cable/dsl modem - even
the cheap
ones at Best Buy from Linksys, D-Link, Microsoft, or Netgear will help
immensely and
come preconfigured to block all inbound access. Otherwise you can download
free ones
off of the internet - Zone Alarm is good for a novice user to set up, while
Sygate or
Kerio are more powerful but require more knowledge of tcp/ip to set up
properly.

Run a program that will detect and remove most adware/spyware/malware such
as Spybot
Search and Destroy or Ad Aware. Then install a pop up stopper program. The
new Google
tool bar is excellent at stopping pop ups and free. --- Steve

https://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
http://spybot.eon.net.au/
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
http://toolbar.google.com/
 
-----Original Message-----
How can I get rid of these messenger popups that tell you
you have a security breach. Destroyads.com and
fightpopups.com are selling a service to get rid of these
popups. This is getting to be very annoying. I started
receiving these after I installed the service pack 4 and
the blaster worm patch.
.
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Disabling the Messenger Service
You can disable the Messenger service if you want to
although doing so may result in Windows not being able to
alert you to some conditions. A list of circumstances when
Windows will use the Messenger service to pop up
informative windows isn't available right now but may
include things like "print job complete", anti-virus, and
event logger status messages. Also, "new mail"
notifications may not be available in an Exchange/Outlook
environment.

Windows 2000

Click Start->Settings->Contriol Panel->

Administrative Tools icon

Services icon

Scroll down and highlight "Messenger"

Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.

Click the STOP button.

Select Disable in the Startup Type scroll bar

Click OK
 
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