Anoying Messenger popups

[Todd]

I will install the fix per Jonathan Kay's post.

But, I have a question. Is this a security hole in win
xp? I recently installed XP for my mother in law. I
tried to make things better but was embarassed by all the
pop ups. We never had this issue under win 98. If you
have the XP firewall turned on, will you still get the
popups?

To me, 99% of all xp users cannot use the messenger
service due to all the popups. It's ashame but once
again, the spammmers ruin the utility.

Thanks,

Todd