Messenger Spams

[sde]

I have a firewall up, but sometimes I take it down for certain reasons. When I take it down, i get a little pop-up box ( not browser but a system box ) that advertises porn or software to buy to prevent these messenger spams.

Does anyone know how to get rid of these without buying and running some lame program?

[abc123]

don't tell me they sell programs to stop this..

oh my..


go into dos a type:

net stop messenger

then for a more permanent solution, open up "admin tools->services" and disable "Messenger"

[sde]

thanks a lot.

yes, there were several sites that sell software that does it =)

it's really strange, .. i've been running win2k pro for a couple years now and have never had that problem till recently. i guess it is because i just started using msn messenger.

[alpha]

it has nothing to do with msn messenger.

It's just a new way to spam that wasn't used before, just turn off Messenger service.

[joe_bruin]

have a look through your 'services' control panel and disable stuff that you don't need. 'messenger' and 'remote registry' are a couple of good ones. if you're on xp, you can save yourself 30 or more megs of ram by disabling alot of junk.
ex: if you don't use terminal services, turn it off.
if you don't need 'fast user switching', you'll really speed up your desktop when you disable it.