Should Windows XP SP1 Block Messenger Spam?

Short of disabling or uninstalling Windows Messenger
should not the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) block
Messenger Spam?
I have installed all the latest relevant sevice packs.
Yet, when I go to Network Connections and highlight my AOL
7.0 connection and click on Change Settings on this
Connection, nothing happens. I can not tell if the
firewall is activated or not.
How do I tell if my windows XP is 64 bit. If it is, is
the ICF unnessesary or just incompatible?
Is it possible that the firewall is in place and certain
spammers are grandfathered in through some registry in the
firewall?
-----Original Message-----
Greetings,

What you're seeing is the Messenger service built-in to
Windows, not MSN/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. The
"Messenger Service" was designed to send quick messages
(like you're seeing) across local
networks -- but since the Internet is one large network,
it's been exposed to everyone.

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

"cranflake" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know how to turn off the Messenger Service
so
that I don't keep getting pop up messages constantly.

HELP!!!!!!


.

Hi,

Disabling or uninstalling Windows Messenger will have no effect on Messenger Spam -- it is
caused by the "Messenger Service". You can't enable the Internet Connection Firewall on an
AOL Connection, simply because AOL doesn't support these features (you also can't "share" an
AOL connection). Instead, turn off the "Messenger Service". To do so, 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.

Your Windows XP is not 64-bit -- 64-bit processors are high-priced processors mainly for
server applications. If you had a 64-bit version of Windows (and a 64-bit processor), you'd
know it.

There is no mythical place in registry for this data, the spam simply arrives, shows up on
the screen and is gone.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"clayt2" wrote in message ...
Short of disabling or uninstalling Windows Messenger
should not the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) block
Messenger Spam?
I have installed all the latest relevant sevice packs.
Yet, when I go to Network Connections and highlight my AOL
7.0 connection and click on Change Settings on this
Connection, nothing happens. I can not tell if the
firewall is activated or not.
How do I tell if my windows XP is 64 bit. If it is, is
the ICF unnessesary or just incompatible?
Is it possible that the firewall is in place and certain
spammers are grandfathered in through some registry in the
firewall?
-----Original Message-----
Greetings,

What you're seeing is the Messenger service built-in to
Windows, not MSN/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. The
"Messenger Service" was designed to send quick messages
(like you're seeing) across local
networks -- but since the Internet is one large network,
it's been exposed to everyone.

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

"cranflake" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know how to turn off the Messenger Service
so
that I don't keep getting pop up messages constantly.

HELP!!!!!!


.