spam

[DAVE]

since getting messenger installed this week i am having
an ad appear about 20 times a day inviting me to buy a
spam blocking system. The thing is i never received this
ad until i installed messenger. its driving me crazy and
i want to stop it apearing how do i do that ?

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Dave,

Do these "pop-ups" 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.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"DAVE" > wrote in message
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> since getting messenger installed this week i am having
> an ad appear about 20 times a day inviting me to buy a
> spam blocking system. The thing is i never received this
> ad until i installed messenger. its driving me crazy and
> i want to stop it apearing how do i do that ?