spam on messenger

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How do I stop the spam pop-up boxes on messenger? I just
installed XP and now I have all these spam boxes popping
up every two minutes. I'd like to give Mr. Gates a huge
piece of my mind right now!!!
 
Greetings mjl,

Do these "popups" that are appearing have "Messenger Service" in their titlebar? If so, 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, 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 effected by this.
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-----Original Message-----
How do I stop the spam pop-up boxes on messenger? I just
installed XP and now I have all these spam boxes popping
up every two minutes. I'd like to give Mr. Gates a huge
piece of my mind right now!!!
.
I have the same problem. They ask for your SCREEN NAME
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AND PASSWORD then all i get is spam..flooded with it. I
can't sign to Windows on because of this. I need to
delete dial-up networking and cannot find how to do this.
Any suggestion would be much appreciated. Thanks
 
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