pop ups

[theresa]

>-----Original Message-----
>I get several (many) pop ups each time I go on line AND
>THEY ARE ALL microsoft telling me how to get rid of pop
>ups! Please tell me how to rid myself of these microsoft
>pop ups. Thank you, Doris
>.
>Doris I am having the same problem and after spending
HOURS on the phone and on the internet was able to finally
locate this. It worked on my computer so it should help
you. Oh, and they earlier reply stating that the messeges
arent from Microsoft is actually accurate. They just
created this wonderful feature to make it even easier for
morons to send out this nonsense. I have 3 kids and have
started getting porn popups under the messenger. So it's
not from Microsoft, but it is their fault!
Hope this helps!
Click on Start -> Help & Support and look up "enable ICF"
and you will find the following:

To enable or disable Internet Connection Firewall
Open Network Connections
Click the Dial-up, LAN or High-Speed Internet connection
that you want to protect, and then, under Network Tasks,
click Change settings of this connection.
On the Advanced tab, under Internet Connection Firewall,
select one of the following:
To enable Internet Connection Firewall (ICF), select the
Protect my computer and network by limiting or preventing
access to this computer from the Internet check box.
To disable Internet Connection Firewall, clear the Protect
my computer and network by limiting or preventing access
to this computer from the Internet check box.

[Shenan T. Stanley]

-----Original Message-----
> I get several (many) pop ups each time I go on line AND
> THEY ARE ALL microsoft telling me how to get rid of pop
> ups! Please tell me how to rid myself of these microsoft
> pop ups. Thank you, Doris

theresa <> wrote:
> Doris I am having the same problem and after spending
> HOURS on the phone and on the internet was able to finally
> locate this. It worked on my computer so it should help
> you. Oh, and they earlier reply stating that the messeges
> arent from Microsoft is actually accurate. They just
> created this wonderful feature to make it even easier for
> morons to send out this nonsense. I have 3 kids and have
> started getting porn popups under the messenger. So it's
> not from Microsoft, but it is their fault!
> Hope this helps!
> Click on Start -> Help & Support and look up "enable ICF"
> and you will find the following:
>
> To enable or disable Internet Connection Firewall
> Open Network Connections
> Click the Dial-up, LAN or High-Speed Internet connection
> that you want to protect, and then, under Network Tasks,
> click Change settings of this connection.
> On the Advanced tab, under Internet Connection Firewall,
> select one of the following:
> To enable Internet Connection Firewall (ICF), select the
> Protect my computer and network by limiting or preventing
> access to this computer from the Internet check box.
> To disable Internet Connection Firewall, clear the Protect
> my computer and network by limiting or preventing access
> to this computer from the Internet check box.

While you are correct in that it was enabled by default by Microsoft, I
would not blame them for your own inability to protect yourself on the
Internet. Windows XP, while it does allow Messenger Service messages to be
sent (because it is the next level of Business Level OSes as well as Home
Based) is FAR more secure than it's Windows 95/98/98SE and ME siblings.
They even gave you the answer to your problem, if you had just searched
using Google, gotten on the Microsoft web page and searched for Messenger
Service advertisements or an assortment of other easy ways of finding the
answer.

Read up on how to protect yourself on the Internet. The features left on by
default may have been a bad choice by Microsoft - considering they were
marketing to NON-computer literate people as well as the systems admins who
would deploy it en-masse. What surprised me is that they did turn off so
many features useful to people like me (system admin) in Windows XP Home,
but missed the Messenger Service. I thought - by default - Windows XP Home
now had the firewall turned on at the install. Is that true? If so, then
perhaps Microsoft remedied the side (XP Home) mean for the less computer
literate.

Read up a little more on ways to protect yourself:

http://tinyurl.com/elb9

Might find some interesting (and free) products to help you. =)

--
Shenan Stanley
"Just trying to help"
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How to use XPs Help and Support
http://tinyurl.com/fltf

How to Use the Microsoft Product Support Newsgroups
http://tinyurl.com/fkja

How to use Google
http://www.google.com/help/basics.html
http://tinyurl.com/fkmc
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