Messenger Service Pop Ups

[CHESH77]

Could someone let me know in my email provided how to get
the pop ups of the windows messenger service to stop
coming up. Everyday my internet is on and even if I am
not browsing I get on my desktop pop ups of messenger
service. I come home to find about 30 to 40 pop ups that
I have to delete. Can someone tell me how to fix this.
This is happening to many of my other friends as well.

Help Needed
Thx Kris

 

[Diane]

-----Original Message-----
Could someone let me know in my email provided how to get
the pop ups of the windows messenger service to stop
coming up. Everyday my internet is on and even if I am
not browsing I get on my desktop pop ups of messenger
service. I come home to find about 30 to 40 pop ups that
I have to delete. Can someone tell me how to fix this.
This is happening to many of my other friends as well.

Help Needed
Thx Kris
.
I have the same problem. Did you get any help? Please

share the solution if there is one. Thanks Diane

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Diane,

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 affected by this.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com