Messenger auto starting in background???

From: Greg (mr_cheesey_sheep_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:21:24 -0700

Hi, yeah i had the same thing, go onto the options window
on messanger (tools > options) and then (i cant remember
wich tab it is) but on one of the tabs there is loads of
tick boxs, and thr are some like, 'sign me in
automaticly' and 'allow program to run in background'
ect, untick them, hope it helps

greg

>-----Original Message-----
>Last night I was online and all of a sudden a got a
messenger conversation.
>I hadn't used messenger in ages, the icon was not in the
task bar and I
>didn't start it up. I quickly went to task manager and
ended the process for
>msmsgs.exe However, every few minutes it starts back
up. There is no
>indication or icon in teh task bar...it runs completely
in the background. I
>have tried uninstalling it, running a virus checker...no
success? Is this a
>virus, trojan? Any help would be appreciated.
>.
>

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