Re: Pop Ups

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 06/17/03 

Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:41:24 -0400

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.

Mary wrote:
> 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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