messenger service spam

From: Jordan (hairless@telus.net)
Date: 03/27/03 

From: "Jordan" <hairless@telus.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:02:39 -0800

Hello,
go to start, click run and type services.msc then click OK
Scroll down until you see "Messenger". Right click on it
and go stop, then right click on it and go
properties,where it says "startup type" change it to
disabled...there you go...
Jordan
>-----Original Message-----
>I have the "internet connection firewall" that came with
windowsxp
>installed however it is not stopping me from constantly
reeceiving pop
>up spam, I understand that these pop up spam uses UDP
ports, I have
>opened up the advance options in the "internet
connection firewall" in
>windowsxp and have yet to see anyway of manually
configuring the
>program to block incoming requests to these ports, I
have tried with
>zone alarm pro but the system just kept crashing every 5
mins with
>windowsxp it was not worth the reboot time, so I
uninstalled and went
>back to "internet connection firewall" pls anyone with
any ideas of
>stopping this messenger service spam with the "internet
connection
>firewall" that comes with windowsxp short of disabling
the messenger
>service itself pls I am all ears.
>.
>

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