Messenger How to stop

[Sunny]

Windows messenger is beginning to annoy me. It tries to access the internet
constantly.
Zone Alarm is reporting (and blocking) it up to 40 times in a two hour
session
Is there a safe way to disable it without screwing up other programs like
OE, etc.?

 

[MAP]

-----Original Message-----
Windows messenger is beginning to annoy me. It tries to access the internet
constantly.
Zone Alarm is reporting (and blocking) it up to 40 times in a two hour
session
Is there a safe way to disable it without screwing up other programs like
OE, etc.?


.

XP Anti-spy has a feature to disable msn messenger or to
completly remove it.I've been using it for two years with
no problems.
www.xp-antispy.org/

 

[Phil \(purplehaz\)]

Are you sure it messenger? It should not try to connect by itself if you
have set it to not run in the background and not start when windows starts.
But anyway.........
Close down Messenger (right click the messenger icon in the notification
area/system tray and click close). Then click the start button, then
click Run and type in (copy-paste if you like):
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

Then click OK. Messenger will then be uninstalled. For more detailed
instructions and screenshots, go to:
http://messenger.jonathankay.com/problem.aspx?ID=7

 

[Guest]

Hmmm....these responses have suprised me

In Control Panel under Perfomance & Maintennance, click Administrative Tools, then click Services. Scroll down the list until you see Messenger. Right click it and select All Tasks and then Stop. Then Right click Messenger again and select Properties. In the Startup type drop down box, select Disabled. then Apply and Okay

This will disable Messenger even after reboot. This way you don't have to uninstall it....

Peace


----- Sunny wrote: ----

Windows messenger is beginning to annoy me. It tries to access the interne
constantly
Zone Alarm is reporting (and blocking) it up to 40 times in a two hou
sessio
Is there a safe way to disable it without screwing up other programs lik
OE, etc.

 

[Ken and Faith]

That is not MSN messenger, that is the messenger service that gives you the
grey boxes on your screen that just pop up. "Transmits net send and Alerter
service messages between clients and servers." For me it was merely another
source of spam that I receive (or use to receive prior to disabling it.

Hmmm....these responses have suprised me.

In Control Panel under Perfomance & Maintennance, click Administrative

Tools, then click Services. Scroll down the list until you see Messenger.
Right click it and select All Tasks and then Stop. Then Right click
Messenger again and select Properties. In the Startup type drop down box,
select Disabled. then Apply and Okay.

 

[Plato]

Windows messenger is beginning to annoy me. It tries to access the internet
constantly.

http://www.bootdisk.com/xptop10.htm#3

 

[Phil \(purplehaz\)]

You're confused, that's why some of the correct responses suprised you.
What you told the op to turn off is the messenger service. This service is
used for net send commands on an internal lan and has NOTHING to do with
Windows Messneger or MSN Messenger. They are two different and separate
things. If you would have read the description of the services before you
disabled it you would know this. You should not disable things without first
knowing what your doing. Next time research the service before blindly
disabling it thinking it is something that it is not.

 

[Guest]

I'm not the one who needs to research..

Here is a relevant link that SOME of you may find informative..

http://www.webscanada.com/stopthepop.ht

Peace

 

[Phil \(purplehaz\)]

Uhhhh......... what's your point. We all know that disabling the messenger
service will stop Messenger Service pop-up ads from appearing on your
screen. What does this have to do with the op's question? As I said, the
messenger service has nothing to do with windows messenger and the op wanted
to unistall windows messenger. If the op wanted to stop messenger service
pop-up ads, then the correct answer is to install and enable a firewall.
Disabling the service only hides the problem it doesn't stop it. A firewall
stops it. But the op did not say anything about popup ads, so I can only
assume this isn't what they're talking about. Here's some info on messenger
service popup ads for you:

If they say messenger service in the title bar, these pop ups have nothing
to do with MSN messenger or Windows messenger. What this is a new way for
spammers to attack your computer and send you pop-up ads. If you receive
these ads it means that your computers netbios ports are wide open to the
internet and this could be a real security problem. What you should do is
install a good firewall that will block the ports the spammers use and stop
the ads. A good place to start is Zone Alarm ( www.zonelabs.com ) for an
inbound/outbound blocking firewall or use the inbound blocking only firewall
built in to XP. If needed configure the firewall to block ports 135, 137-139
and 445. Zone Alarm will block these ports by default.

Use this site to test some of your ports security:
https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

You can/should also disable the messenger service, which is the service the
spammers exploit, but it isn't needed to stop the ads and disabling the
service will not block the open netbios ports.

Note: If the Messenger service is stopped, messages from the Alerter
service (notifications from your antivirus software, for example) are
not transmitted. If the Messenger service is turned off, any services
that explicitly depend on the Messenger service do not start, and an
error message is logged in the System event log. For this reason,
Microsoft recommends that you install a firewall and configure it to
block NetBIOS and RPC traffic instead of turning off the Messenger
service. To turn off the service goto, control panel, administrative tools,
services, find messenger, right click, properties, hit the stop button, set
startup type to manual or disabled. (be sure to stay patched at windows
update as well)

If the pop-ups appear while surfing web pages then download and install one
of the many pop-up blocker programs. Search www.download.com for popup
blocker, you'll find many free ones.

Also get a good spyware cleaner:

Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/

Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.com

 

[Alex Nichol]

Windows messenger is beginning to annoy me. It tries to access the internet
constantly.
Zone Alarm is reporting (and blocking) it up to 40 times in a two hour
session

If you let it sign in for you then it will look every so often to see
who of your contacts is on line.

It is doing no harm: But next time ZA comes up, check the little box to
say always do this, then click Yes.

 

[Sunny]

If you let it sign in for you then it will look every so often to see
who of your contacts is on line.

It is doing no harm: But next time ZA comes up, check the little box to
say always do this, then click Yes.

Thanks Alex, I have Zone Alarm Pro and have the "always do this" checked.
Persistent little devil, It displays "Windows Messenger not signed in" and
despite me unticking it in msconfig, it still loads into system tray. The
dire warnings about OE and IE needing it, when you try to fiddle with it is
a worry.