Re: Pop Ups
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 06/17/03
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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:41:19 -0400
....what you've described will take care of the symptom but not the disease.
The issue is that there's no firewall blocking those ports from the
internet.
Skywing wrote:
> Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services. Right click
> the "Messenger" service and go to it's properties. Then, change it
> to Disabled. Additionally, you might want to hit Stop as well if it
> is already running.
>
> Note that this doesn't interfere with instant messenger services like
> AIM or ICQ or MSNIM; the Messenger service is used for (completely
> unrelated) NET SEND messages, which are being increasingly abused for
> spamming purposes, as you've had the misfortune to find out
> first-hand.
>
> "Mary" <mar_law@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:076801c33468$b0cacdf0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> How can I get rid of pop ups? This just started happening
>> a few months ago. These pop ups say they come from
>> Messenger Service. It is always text in a gray box.
>> It is very annoying and I haven't figured out how
>> to get rid of these things.
>>
>> These pop ups started when I switched from MSN Dialup
>> to SBCGlobal DSL. I'm not a techie. Can you help?
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