Messenger Pop-ups making me crazy

[Brian]

These pop-ups are going to make me postal

How do I delete messenger/shut it off/keep these pop-ups
from comming even with messenger not running???

Any suggestion appreciated!

Thanks

 

[Larry]

-----Original Message-----
These pop-ups are going to make me postal

How do I delete messenger/shut it off/keep these pop-ups
from comming even with messenger not running???

Any suggestion appreciated!

Thanks
.

Hope this helps,

CANCEL WINDOWS MESSENGER POPUPS:

Click Start - Control Panel
Click Admin Tools
Click Component Services
Double click services local
Double click Messenger in box on right to bring up the
options panel
Right click the highlighted line and choose properties
click the stop button
select disabled or manual on the start up style drop down
menu
click ok

No more popups

 

[Rich]

These pop ups are the most annoying damn thing I have
ever dealt with and black smoke and mirrors surrounds any
information relevant to turning them off. Someone PLEASE
help us!!!

 

[Guest]

. Reply (E-mail) Forward (E-mail)

Subject: Re: Stopping popups
From: "Jonathan Kay [MVP]"
<[email protected]> Sent: 8/8/2003 9:45:48
AM




Greetings Paul,

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

 

[Don Burnette]

It is amazing the number of folks that post for help on these messenger
service popups on a daily basis.
As Jonathan mentioned, you can disable the messenger service ( has nothing
to do with windows messenger), to get rid of them. Be aware though, you have
ports open and that is how they are able to come through. Kind of like
leaving your house unlocked . Scammers are using this to spam you, and
often times try to get the innocent to purchase software from them to keep
it from occuring. You can bandaid it by disabling the messenger service in
XP, but those ports are still open. You can enable XP's built in firewall,
or purchase a good 3rd party firewall.
If your on broadband, you can also go the hardware route by purchasing a
router that has NAT protection. I am on cable modem, run it behind a router,
works very well, and I have never seen a single one of these messenger
service popups. I have a 4 port Linksys BEFSR41 router, paid about 60 bucks
for it, and well worth the money.


Don Burnette

 

[Jeffrey]

Go to this site and it will give you explicit
instructions on how to disable those pop-ups. It worked
for me.

http://iatservices.missouri.edu/techknowledge/11-
2002/windows.html