Messenger Service PopUps

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Lorna

How do I get rid of these annoying pop-ups? Have tried
message blocker software, etc.

I do a lot of work on my home computer and don't have time
to keep clicking these!!!

Please help!!!
 
Lorna said:
How do I get rid of these annoying pop-ups? Have tried
message blocker software, etc.

I do a lot of work on my home computer and don't have time
to keep clicking these!!!
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Admin Tools/Computer Management/Services then disable the messenger service.

Andy.
 
Andrew said:
Admin Tools/Computer Management/Services then disable the messenger
service.
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Ixnay - this merely camoflauges the real problem - it's like taking the
batteries out of your smoke alarm rather than finding out why it's beeping.
 
Does the window title say anything about Messenger? If so, you need a
firewall. 'Messenger spam', is not in itself harmful, but is symptomatic of
a larger problem - your computer has ports open from the Internet.

You can disable the Messenger service, but that is unwise as a solution as
you'll still have the underlying problem that caused you to get the messages
in the first place - consider the messages a useful warning that you have no
protection from the Internet. This is all too important now, given the
recent rash of RPC worms....

For a standalone machine, see www.sygate.com for a free personal firewall,
or if using Windows XP, you can enable the built-in internet connection
firewall (ICF).

See http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm for more info. Also,
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/nopopups.htm is a good resource - although
for browser popups, you might want to consider http://toolbar.google.com -
it works like a champ and is also handy for searching.
 
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