MSMSG.exe and msmsgs.exe ... HELP!

[Burt]

Everytime I reboot my system I have noticed that my
network activity is constant. I am sending and receiving
packets but have no idea what the data is. I have
disabled the Windows Messenger service but these two
executables still show up after a restart. When I
terminate the process and disable/enable the network
connection, the sending/receiving activity ceases.
Can anyone tell me what is going on here? I Norton
Antivirus running and up-to-date and have also run
Spybot. What else can I do and how do I find out what my
system is communicating with?

Thanks,
Burt

 

[Mitch]

Msmsg.exe and msmsgs.exe Belong to the MSN messenger
program, try running Spybot in advanced mode and taking
these programs off your System Startup. (In
Spybot>Tools>System Startup.)

Hope this helped.
~ Mitch
(e-mail address removed)