Hi Herbert,
Your problem is you do not practice safe computing.
Tell me that you have and run and AVP, have a firewall (hardware or software), have and run
Ad-aware, and have and run SpyBot S&D. You have popups because port scanners have picked up
you I.P. from the back of your computer where you have over 65,000 doors without a lock.
What would your house be like if it had that many doors and no locks. I can tell you. You'd
probably be sitting on top of your computer with a gun. The same thing happens with hackers
as does with burglars.
You can turn off your Messenger Service, but that's like putting a Band-Aid on snake bite.