How di I get rid of those pesky pop up Window alerts!?

[OM]

Can someone tell me how to get rid of those pesky Window alerts that I get
popping up!?
I'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about.
They make life a misery.
How do I get rid of them?

Else, can someone tell me how I can create them myself.
Maybe I can start a few porn sites or dodgy money ripping off websites
myself!?
If I can't beat them, I might as well join them.

Any help would be appreciated! : )


Thanks.

OM

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

Do these "popups" that are appearing have "Messenger Service" in their titlebar? If so, what
you're seeing is the Messenger service built-in to Windows, *not* Windows Messenger (which
are two different things) which spammers are exploiting -- this is not Microsoft, nor can
Microsoft control them anymore then they can control spam to your e-mail inbox.

To get rid of these pop ups, you'll need to disable the "Messenger Service", click Start,
then Run, enter "services.msc"and click OK. Scroll down to "Messenger", select it,
right-click and then choose Properties. Under startup type, choose 'Disabled' and then
choose the 'Stop' button. After the service is stopped, click OK. Nothing in Windows or any
real third-party applications should be effected by this.

This is actually the tool that they're using for these:
http://www.directadvertiser.com (seems to be down at the moment)
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"OM" > wrote in message ...
> Can someone tell me how to get rid of those pesky Window alerts that I get
> popping up!?
> I'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about.
> They make life a misery.
> How do I get rid of them?
>
> Else, can someone tell me how I can create them myself.
> Maybe I can start a few porn sites or dodgy money ripping off websites
> myself!?
> If I can't beat them, I might as well join them.
>
> Any help would be appreciated! : )
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> OM
>
>