messenger pop-ups

[Ron]

>-----Original Message-----
>I have these pop-up messenger window ads that pop-up
>while I'm online. Then I get one from byebyeads.com and
>it says there is a hole in the windows xp application
and
>you could get a virus threw this same hole. To protect
>you from this leak pay $24.95 and download this special
>software. It just didn't make sense to me that a big
>company like Microsoft would allow this to happen and
not
>have a fix for it. Let me know if there is a solution
>that I just don't know about. Thanks David
>.
>>Try this:
Push "Start"
Push "Control Panel"
Double Click "Administrative Tools"
Double Click "Services"
Double Click "Messenger"
Under "Start-up Type" Change the Dropdown box to
say "disable" instead of "Automatic"
Under "Service Status" Click the "stop" button.
Click "apply"
Click "OK"

The pop-up adds have stopped for me let me now how it
works for you.

[Amethyst]

Ron wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I have these pop-up messenger window ads that pop-up
>> while I'm online. Then I get one from byebyeads.com and
>> it says there is a hole in the windows xp application and
>> you could get a virus threw this same hole. To protect
>> you from this leak pay $24.95 and download this special
>> software. It just didn't make sense to me that a big
>> company like Microsoft would allow this to happen and not
>> have a fix for it. Let me know if there is a solution
>> that I just don't know about. Thanks David
>> .
>>> Try this:
> Push "Start"
> Push "Control Panel"
> Double Click "Administrative Tools"
> Double Click "Services"
> Double Click "Messenger"
> Under "Start-up Type" Change the Dropdown box to
> say "disable" instead of "Automatic"
> Under "Service Status" Click the "stop" button.
> Click "apply"
> Click "OK"
>
> The pop-up adds have stopped for me let me now how it
> works for you.

Ron,

Did you not read my reply either? It may stop the ads but it does nothing to
stop the problem of the open ports. The only way to do that is to install a
firewall. The ads are a symptom, /not/ the problem.


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