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Ms Messenger win XP home

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by jrbigsky Dec 28, 2002 last reply Mar 28, 2003

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I have MSN messenger turned off in win XP .....but I keep getting a pop up ad from MSN that reads in the top pop up line .." Messenger Service"
in the start of the ad there is who it is from with a IP address then the ad which is mostly about porn or something close like dating..
Where is this coming from and how can I stop it?

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by thechas Dec 28, 2002

Try the suggestions from this link,

http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/windowsxp/messenger.htm

Remove any spaces in the pasted link.

There are also suggestions on how to 'fully' disable MSN messenger from links from Mark's site, or at

www.aumha.org

www.onecomputerguy.com

Chas

by jrbigsky Mar 28, 2003

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by charles_j_smith Dec 28, 2002

The messenger service is mostly used in large networks to convey messsages to a group of systems quickly. For home users, its just a service that is sitting there waiting to be exploited (like in your case and many others). I suggest you disable it. The link below describes how to do this:
http://www.lantalk.net/disable_messenger.php

Good luck with it.