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Is messenger down today????
If you have a valid reason not to use a firewall, click Start, Run and enter SERVICES.MSC Locate the Messenger entry and double click it. Set it to Stopped and Disabled. However, the reason they can get to the Messenger Service (not to be confused with Windows Messenger) in the first place, is that your internet

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Jason Piercey Ja...@atreng.com microsoft public windowsxp general Even better. "FrankFL" <bbu...@bqik.net> wrote in message news:%23CliCgMbIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... Control panel > Add or remove programs > Add/remove windows components > unpick [ ] Windows Messenger. Administrative tools > Services

Jack Blackfelt Messenger Service
Every so often she would get a little pop-up window (no, it's not an Internet Explorer or any browser window, it's just an application window) showing "Messenger Service: get this for free at www.this.com", and if you close the window, another one would start with a message "Messenger Service: get that for free at

Windows Messenger Service POPUPS
Cerridwen cerrid...@celticnet.com microsoft public windowsxp messenger Tony Soares wrote: How do I disable the "Messenger Service"????? Messenger Service pop up windows keep annoying me all the time. How do I stop it? Please help! (Thanks a Million) Tony Soares soares_...@yahoo.com You don't. It's a very stupid,

Messenger Service Popups
NET Messenger Service You are connected to the internet through wired network You are connected to the internet using a direct connection Thats the 3 things that came up . Is that all ok ? I have no clue lol Thanks Susie :) "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote: Hi Susie, Gotcha, that rules out most of the more general

How to stop "Windows Messenger Service" (ATTN: Firewater)
Double Click Administrative Tools 3. Select Services-> Double-click on Messenger 4. In the Messenger Properties window, select Stop, 5. Then choose Disable as the Startup Type 6. Click OK Windows 98 & ME Windows Messenger Service cannot be disabled -- "Its the bugs that keep it running." -Joe Canuck.

Is messenger down today????
Mike Mulligan mmulli...@invalid.net microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support I disagree with your advice to disable the messenger service, but that's not what this post is about. One of the things that we who respond to questions have to do is attempt to gauge a poster's experience with computers in general and

Messenger Service
Net Messenger service uses Windows Messenger to log on to the MSN Messenger service that you know and love. The MSN Messenger client that you open signs on to the same MSN Messenger service. So it appears that you have the Windows Messenger client running and I'm guessing that it's hidden in your tray.

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Jim Many thanks for the information It still puzzles me that even though I am not using MSN messenger - that check box still appears, by magic?. I have looked at the registry and try to delete keys which make reference to "messenger service" but to no avail. Do you know how it appear - what is it - something in my

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Terry R. F1ComNOS...@pobox.com microsoft public windowsxp general The date and time was 2/8/2008 11:39 AM, and on a whim, Jason Piercey pounded out on the keyboard: In the system tray I've got an icon for Windows Messenger. In the past, I've disabled this by Start > Run > gpedit.msc > Administrative Templates

Messenger Service Popups
This is a new type of spam using pop-up Windows generated by the Messenger Service that is an integral part of Windows. Do NOT confuse the above with the chat programmes Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger - they are different. The spammers are using something called Windows Messenger *Service*, which is technically

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Tom Swift tom.sw...@swiftenterprises.com alt sys pc-clone dell The point that I think some posters are missing is this: Messenger service is not the problem. Internet pond scum are abusing a legitimate feature of the operating system. They are able to access this feature through open ports.

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David Candy da...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp basics -e programs use messenger service to communicate with the user. The problem isn't with messenger service but the fact you are networking with the world. In 9x the default was not to network internet connections but because XP is designed to be networked

O/T- Messenger Service pop ups
Event Viewer shows a Service Control Manager event number 7003 on Windows NT 3.51 and 7024 on Windows NT 4.0. With Windows NT 3.51, this message is explained by the following: The Messenger service depends on the following nonexistent service: NetBIOS. With Windows NT 4.0, this message is explained by the

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Q330904 - Messenger Service Window That Contains an Internet Advertisement Appears http://support.microsoft.com/?id=330904 This happens through the messenger *service* NOT the Windows messenger *application* that runs in OE. All your fixes below are for stopping the Windows messenger *application* from running with

Is messenger down today????
*despite the proverb would like to shoot the messenger* DG "GoddessXena" <theNogoddessSPAMx...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3EEB6A09.40106@yahoo.com... Since I'ma Win XP user, I've been getting more and more Messenger Service pop up ads lately (6 this morning already) and that kind of intrusive bullshit bugs me

Messenger Service.
Cerridwen cerrid...@celticnet.com microsoft public windowsxp newusers Devin Panchal wrote: hi, i've bought a new sony lapotop with xp on it. and sometimes when i'm on the internet, i get a message from a 'messenger service' (nothin to do with msn). that i have got spy ware, etc. and that i should click 'ok',

Disabling "Messenger Service"
Alun Jones [MS MVP] a...@texis.com microsoft public windowsxp security_admin In article <rd60lv0ee91lbo0044v571cgi87eukq...@4ax.com>, Kevin Davisł <zkevindav...@cfl.rr.com> wrote: Rationale for first change: Asserting for a fact that "disabling the messenger service does nothing to secure your machine" is

Turning off Messenger Service
Thor m...@arms.com alt computer AFAIK, it's the messenger service itself that is the security hole. If you want to call it that, because thus far, I don't believe anyone has regarded it as possible to execute malicious code via the messenger service. It just pops up annoying messages, and messaging is what it was