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Old December 5th 03, 03:20 PM
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Default Unwanted Popups via Messenger Service


-----Original Message-----
How do I get rid of the popups that want me to pay money=20
for a program to get rid of the popups without paying=20

them=20
the money??? This is a fascinating bit of extortion! =20
Thanks for any help you can provide.
.


I have the same problem!!!, pop ups came from nowere even=20
with the IE off!! and the prog they are selling is "Jimmy=20
surfer" an anti pop ups prog (=B7"!"$!=AA!%) u sure it cames=20
from the messenger? if you got any solution please reply=20
to me )
This **** troubles everybody... I`m sending this to you=20
from Argentina. :-P how's that?

saludos
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Old December 5th 03, 03:20 PM
Jonathan Kay [MVP]
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Default Unwanted Popups via Messenger Service

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

wrote in message ...

-----Original Message-----
How do I get rid of the popups that want me to pay money
for a program to get rid of the popups without paying

them
the money??? This is a fascinating bit of extortion!
Thanks for any help you can provide.
.


I have the same problem!!!, pop ups came from nowere even
with the IE off!! and the prog they are selling is "Jimmy
surfer" an anti pop ups prog (·"!"$!ª!%) u sure it cames
from the messenger? if you got any solution please reply
to me )
This **** troubles everybody... I`m sending this to you
from Argentina. :-P how's that?

saludos


 




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