pop up messages

[Pam Thomas]

We have Windows XP loaded on our computer. We keep
getting pop up Service Messages.
If you go to www.endads.com it states that this was
endluced in Microsofts Windows XP, 2000, and NT.

How can we get rid of these annoying pop up messages?

Thank you.

 

[Nicholas]

A New Window Appears When You Visit Some Web Sites
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q308446

Messenger Service Window That Contains an Internet Advertisement Appears
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330904&sd=tech

Essential Security Tools for Home Office Users
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...l=/technet/columns/security/5min/5min-105.asp

If you wish to solve your pop-up problems once and for
all, consider purchasing and installing a third-party program
designed to do just that:

Norton Internet Security 2003
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/nis/nis_pe/

-- Includes Norton AntiVirus 2003
-- Includes Norton Personal Firewall
-- Includes prevention of annoying web pop-ups
-- Includes Parental Controls
-- All in one, easy-to-install package


--
Nicholas

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| We have Windows XP loaded on our computer. We keep
| getting pop up Service Messages.
| If you go to www.endads.com it states that this was
| endluced in Microsofts Windows XP, 2000, and NT.
|
| How can we get rid of these annoying pop up messages?
|
| Thank you.
|

 

[Shenan T. Stanley]

We have Windows XP loaded on our computer. We keep
getting pop up Service Messages.
If you go to www.endads.com it states that this was
endluced in Microsofts Windows XP, 2000, and NT.

How can we get rid of these annoying pop up messages?

Please be sure to review my signature and the web links found there. You
would have been able to get this answer faster on your own.

Advice on Popups and their elimination:

http://www.fracas.net/newsgroups/generaladvice.html#popups
or
http://tinyurl.com/el9s

You may want to look over the whole page.

 

[Shenan T. Stanley]

-----Original Message-----

o stop this goto your control panel, goto Admin
Tools>>Services>>Scroll down to "Messenger" double click
on it, and select "Disable" instead of Auto. This will
fix it for u

btw, everyone make sure u try searching

Are you leaving the open ports on their computer for a reason?

 

[rifleman]

[This followup was posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics and a
copy was sent to the cited author.]

o stop this goto your control panel, goto Admin
Tools>>Services>>Scroll down to "Messenger" double click
on it, and select "Disable" instead of Auto. This will
fix it for u

btw, everyone make sure u try searching

You could try searching for the other half of the solution. THE OP NEEDS
TO INSTALL A FIREWALL.

 

[rifleman]

Some firewalls have a popup stopping feature, I believe Zone Alarm has that
feature. However, unless it has that specific function, it won't in and of
itself stop popups.

The messenger popups we are talking about happen because the NETBIOS
ports are open - a firewall stops that!

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP-Windows Shell/User\)]

Yes, that's true. I should have expanded the comment. Unless you were
really familiar with what was being said in this thread, a novice reading it
might then think a firewall would stop popups on the Internet at web sites
and possibly ask why his firewall isn't working. I should have clarified, I
apologize.