pop-ups

[Carl]

-----Original Message-----
What I am reading here sounds all well and good but, I am
running ZoneAlarm Pro with service pk-1 with not a
program open and occassionally I still get that/this pop-
up claiming or saying To Stop This Go
To "www.messenger.net" and the last one
said "www.stopitnow.net" so I do I stop it without going
to their website? I have everything mentioned even before
looking at this posting.

Well I've had this problem get really bad. I used to get
a few pop ups every five minutes. In order to turn this
off, you do not have to download or go to those websites.
This is a new way of spamming using a program call
messenger service that microsoft puts in with ur
computer. In order to stop these follow these directions
and ull never get one again.
1. Go to control panel
2. go to administrative tools. (under performance and
maintanence)
3. click on services.
4. On the left scroll down until you see an application
call messenger.
5. right click on messenger and go to properties.
6. inside the properties window, click on the stop button
ono the right. Then on the start up type drop down menu,
change it to manual.
7. click apply and then click ok.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Well Carl;
Doing that you have very successfully dealt with the symptom.
But you have done NOTHING for the real problem.
You NEED a FIREWALL.
Read my other post this thread, before you cause more damage to your
or other computers.