pop-ups and services.msc

[tobias]

destroyads.com keeps hitting me with pop-up windows.
i attempted to find a solution to this problem and came
across the following:

Disable Messenger Service (services.msc)

Are there any negative effects of doing this that I should
know about?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

You need a firewall. 'Messenger spam', is not in itself harmful,
but is symptomatic of a larger problem - your computer has ports open from
the Internet.

You can disable the Messenger service, but that is unwise as a solution as
you'll still have the underlying problem that caused you to get the messages
in the first place - consider the messages a useful warning that you have no
protection from the Internet. This is all too important now, given the
recent rash of RPC worms....

For a standalone machine, see www.sygate.com for a free personal firewall,
or if using Windows XP, you can enable the built-in internet connection
firewall (ICF).

See http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm for more info.