pop-ups

From: Carl (septemberschild_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/08/03 

Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:46:00 -0700

>-----Original Message-----
>What I am reading here sounds all well and good but, I
am
>running ZoneAlarm Pro with service pk-1 with not a
>program open and occassionally I still get that/this pop-
>up claiming or saying To Stop This Go
>To "www.messenger.net" and the last one
>said "www.stopitnow.net" so I do I stop it without going
>to their website? I have everything mentioned even
before
>looking at this posting.
>

Well I've had this problem get really bad. I used to get
a few pop ups every five minutes. In order to turn this
off, you do not have to download or go to those websites.
This is a new way of spamming using a program call
messenger service that microsoft puts in with ur
computer. In order to stop these follow these directions
and ull never get one again.
1. Go to control panel
2. go to administrative tools. (under performance and
maintanence)
3. click on services.
4. On the left scroll down until you see an application
call messenger.
5. right click on messenger and go to properties.
6. inside the properties window, click on the stop button
ono the right. Then on the start up type drop down menu,
change it to manual.
7. click apply and then click ok.