Ok, this shit needs to be fixed right now:
Clearly, there is something wrong with this service, which doesn’t seem to be removable on Windows XP. I’ll admit that I haven’t researched it fully, but so far all I find is that it’s a “critical service” that can not be removed.
Ugh. I am so sick of this. I get like 8 of them a day, and now it’s started at work too… no system administrator ever sends me messeges like this.
Anyone know how to fix this one? I can’t take pop-ups when I’m NOT EVEN SURFING THE WEB.
Note to those who don’t understand: this is a “feature” of windows that the spam brigade has started exploiting…they just send ads to random ip numbers that pop up on your screen no matter what you’re doing, exploiting a feature of the operating system. And since I’m not really like a nuts and bolts winxp admin, I have no idea how to stop it. I don’t know if winxp admins do either, actually.
Anyway, I have a dr. appt. now, that I have to go to.
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It’s easy to disable Microsoft Messenger Service. Go to teh Control Panelz0rz, Administrative Tizools, Sivervices, and find “Messenger” in the list. Properties –> Startup Type: [Disabled]. And there you go. lolzorz!!!
Comment by omglolrotfllolollzorz!!1! teh sucks lolzorz 1 am not a winxxp 4dmin w00t lolollzorz — Aug 27, 2003 @ 9:31 pm
Well, it’s not that simple. My critique, especially post-blaster.exe is that these are holes that should be plugged by default by Microsoft and not left to the end user to discover only after their computer has been compromised.
I ended up walling off the port that RPC uses, since there’s really no good reason to allow that traffic in and out of my home network.
Are you from Wisconsin? Your dialect is sort of strange.
Comment by illovich — Aug 28, 2003 @ 8:44 am
This url CONSISTS THE ANSWERS THAT YOU SEEK FOR STOPING MESSENGER SERVICE FOR THOSE ANNOYING POP UP THATS IS IN YOU WINDOWS XP OR ANY WINDOWS. DONT NEED TO BE AFRAID OF THIS WEBSITE BEUCASE ITS EDU SO ITS SAFE
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/
Comment by InDiAn — Sep 11, 2003 @ 10:01 pm