Re: pop-ups

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 08/08/03 

Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:06:55 -0600

Well Carl;
Doing that you have very successfully dealt with the symptom.
But you have done NOTHING for the real problem.
You NEED a FIREWALL.
Read my other post this thread, before you cause more damage to your
or other computers. 

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"Carl" <septemberschild@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:055e01c35d4e$d1ae5000$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>
> >-----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.