Re: unplesant pop-up messages

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:37:29 -0400

Wrong - this still leaves your machine very insecure. A better first answer
is to use a firewall, such as www.kerio.com or www.sygate.com which are
free. Disabling the Messenger service might be OK to to in addition, if the
firewall was in place and was working.

"Guest" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B58446DF-A5C8-44AC-B9D5-AEFE8F882484@microsoft.com...
> Go to Run, type in "services.msc", scroll down until you see messenger, 2x
click on it, then stop "messenger" & set startup type to "manual" or
"disable"

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