Help - Messenger Service Spam!!

From: Tavish Muldoon (tmuldoon@spliced.com)
Date: 12/05/02 

From: tmuldoon@spliced.com (Tavish Muldoon)
Date: 4 Dec 2002 15:29:33 -0800

Hello,

Occasionally I have been online and getting a pop up that says -

"Message from www.fightspamwithspam.com to xxx.xxx.xx.xxx (my IP)
Stop these annoying messenger pop-ups Free and forever!
Open your browswer and go to www.fightspamwithspam.com"

I went to the page and it tells me for w2k to disable my messenger service.

Should I so this or is this more sinister.

I am running Zone Alarm Pro. Can I prevent this with that?

Should I disable the messenger service?

Any help appreciated!

Thanks,

Tmuld.

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