Messenger Service

[Tosh McCaber]

Whilst my own computer is u/s, I'm using my son's old one, which hasn't seen the light of day in over a year.

Having spent some time in setting it up again, despite the usual anti-eveything on the Internet side of things that I have installed (AVG, Zone Alarm, Spybot, Ad Aware), I keep on getting messages poping up from "Messenger Service", telling me I have spyware on my disk, and trying to lead me to their contact sites, which, of course, I don't. (I have installed Google Toolbar, which normally blocks pop-ups, but it doesn't stop these pop-ups, since it requires IE 5.5 or higher, which I don't have to hand.)

But how can I get rid of these pesky Messenger Service pop-ups??

Thanks,

Tosh

[maxell]

Try this (http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_mess_disable.htm) and install MSN messenger instead if you need messenger at all
only difference is you will need a net passport to use msn

Max

[The Nr Fairy]

maxell:

Different Messenger. I'm afraid.

Tosh:

Try http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=118159&highlight=messenger

and you should fine the information you need to disable the Windows Messenger Service, as opposed to MSN Messenger.

[maxell]

Nr Fairy
Above is for taking out windows messenger

[BLUE SKY THINKER]

maxell.....

(re. previous) I think you will find that is the object of the exercise (!)...

Courtesy of "Ask Jack"/GuardianUnlimited Online, I quote.....

".....Many people are suffering from pop-up advertising messages that arrive via a low-level messaging service that is part of all NT-based versions of Windows (NT/2000/XP). It has nothing to do with Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger or any other messaging application.....

.....You can turn off this messenger service yourself, in one minute. Log on to Windows XP in administrator mode, go to the Control Panel, and open the Administrative Tools folder. Double-click the Services icon, and scroll down the Name column until you get to Messenger. Double-click Messenger to get the Properties sheet (or right-click it and select Properties), and then click the Dependencies tab. The lower box should be empty, which is to say, nothing depends on you running Messenger.

Go back to the General tab and look for the Service Status section. If Messenger is running, click Stop to stop it. Next, go to Startup type and click the down arrow on the right. Clicking the arrow lets you select Manual or Disabled, and you can select either. If Messenger has no dependencies, select Disabled and click OK to finish. You will not get any more Messenger pop-ups."


http://www.ultratech-llc.com/BrainWave/Images/MessengerSPAM.JPG

[Toxteth O'Grady]

".....Many people are suffering from pop-up advertising messages that arrive via a low-level messaging service that is part of all NT-based versions of Windows (NT/2000/XP). It has nothing to do with Windows Messenger, MSN Messenger or any other messaging application.....

For that very reason, MS disabled the service by default in XP SP2.

[Avtrician]

If its still a problem, go here ( http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm ) and download and run the program shoot the messenger. It is only a few kb long so is quick to download, and will pevent these messages for ever.

[Tosh McCaber]

Thanks Guys,

Hopefully, Messenger should be gone now. I'll let you know if it isn't!

Tosh