messenger popups

[ideaman]

Im having the same pop up problems from these extotionists
did you get any ideas as to how to get rid of it . Id
like to know its totaly extortion to pay them to stop
this nonsense
thanks any help would be appreciated
>-----Original Message-----
>I have recently received messenger popups from a website
>called - www.messengerdefender.com or other variations of
>it such as messengerdestoyer and messengerstop, etc.
>This popup is an advertising for their program to
>eliminate annoying popups (like theirs) from getting
>through to my computer - they state that a hacker to
>penetrate my computer with a virus in one of these popups
>or send porn in the popup. Its basically extortion.
>Anyway, there does seem to be security problem since they
>are able to send their popup through. I have dsl so my
>internet is always up. what can I do without buying
>their program to keep this from happening? I believe I
>am all up to date with my microsoft updates and I run two
>different antivirus programs. Help
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