Messanger Service Pop Ups

Am getting pop ups in middle of screen under
title "Messanger Service". Most are selling software to
fix a "glitch" in Microsoft's Windows Messanger installed
in Windows 2000, NT or XP, or so they claim. Also get a
few of same type of pop ups not selling anything but
wanting to chat. How do I get rid of these unwanted pop
ups. My AOL "Blocking Pop ups" doesn't work on this
problem. What does?

Lanwench
Sat Jun 28 23:04:42 CDT 2003

You need a firewall. This is 'messenger spam', and is not in itself harmful,
but is symptomatic of a larger problem - your compter is entirely exposed to
the Internet. You can disable the Messenger service, but you'll still have
the underlying problem that caused you to get spam. See www.sygate.com for
one freebie.

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

Judy E. wrote:
> Am getting pop ups in middle of screen under
> title "Messanger Service". Most are selling software to
> fix a "glitch" in Microsoft's Windows Messanger installed
> in Windows 2000, NT or XP, or so they claim. Also get a
> few of same type of pop ups not selling anything but
> wanting to chat. How do I get rid of these unwanted pop
> ups. My AOL "Blocking Pop ups" doesn't work on this
> problem. What does?

Shenan
Tue Jul 01 01:38:48 CDT 2003

Judy E. <> wrote:
> Am getting pop ups in middle of screen under
> title "Messanger Service". Most are selling software to
> fix a "glitch" in Microsoft's Windows Messanger installed
> in Windows 2000, NT or XP, or so they claim. Also get a
> few of same type of pop ups not selling anything but
> wanting to chat. How do I get rid of these unwanted pop
> ups. My AOL "Blocking Pop ups" doesn't work on this
> problem. What does?

Advice on Popups and their elimination:

http://www.fracas.net/newsgroups/generaladvice.html#popups
or
http://tinyurl.com/el9s

You may want to look over the whole page.

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