Annoying Messenger Pop Ups

How do you stop those annoying Messenger Pop Ups. I don't need them and I
don't want them. Under the anti-spamming laws, how do I report these sites
that send these to me. I want to see them burn.

Turn on your Windows XP firewall and it should stop them.

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Byron Hinson
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"Anon" wrote in message
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How do you stop those annoying Messenger Pop Ups. I don't need them and I
don't want them. Under the anti-spamming laws, how do I report these sites
that send these to me. I want to see them burn.

Greetings,

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

"Anon" wrote in message
om...
How do you stop those annoying Messenger Pop Ups. I don't need them and I
don't want them. Under the anti-spamming laws, how do I report these sites
that send these to me. I want to see them burn.

"Anon" wrote in message . com...
How do you stop those annoying Messenger Pop Ups. I don't need them and I
don't want them. Under the anti-spamming laws, how do I report these sites
that send these to me. I want to see them burn.

Now many scammer are coming along taking advantage of this new
technology to Spam you . . . They are the only one to have the answer
to stop extremely annoying System Message Window. From anywhere from
$7.95 to $29.95, these Spammers are the lowest scum on the net today.
Spam is Spam no matter how you look at it, these are the lowest class
of people’s on taking advantage of prey., This is no different
from rape., Rape is taken advantage of pray or of your privacy.*
http://wmicro.org/tech_help_index/message_scam.htm to see how to stop
the Messenger pop-up in 4 easy steps for free! Also see
http://microdynamic.org/scam/index.htm, on help! fight to annoying
Messenger Pop Ups . . . articles coming out on Monday May 11, 2003.

for update see also
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...rodynamic.org+