Msn Messenger Pop-ups

[Amarjit]

I'm not talking about "MSN Today" or anything like that but some prompts that appear advertising crap like "I'm someone looking for boy in US". Man it pisses me off.

But what? A USEFUL pop-up appeared advertising to stop this crap. The website is:

http://www.stopthiscrap.com/

:angry: Nothing's free though ...

In the world of KaZaA Lite it is :lol: Anyone have this?

[Wizzandabe]

Nope no pop-ups here.

[Curley]

Can't you configure your firewall to stop them?

[spudlover]

I *think* your talking about dialog boxes that pop-up, but appear to be advertising things?

To stop this, run msconfig, and take MSN messenger SERVICE off the start up. OR put your firewall settings higher (i.e. on ZA Pro, Med security level stops them, if they're from the internet).

[FinalTheorem]

I hope you didn't pay for anything for any software because it's free to get rid of those messages. Just follow the insructions on this (http://www.popup-killer.info/messenger-spam/) page.

EDIT: LOL, me and spudlover posted at the same time, and the same solution.

[MagicNakor]

Windows 2000

Click Start-> Programs-> Administrative Tools->Services
Scroll down and highlight "Messenger"
Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.
Click the STOP button.
Select Disable or Manual in the Startup Type scroll bar
Click OK.

Windows XP

Click Start->Control Panel
Click Performance and Maintenance
Click Administrative Tools
Double click Services
Scroll down and highlight "Messenger"
Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.
Click the STOP button.
Select Disable or Manual in the Startup Type scroll bar
Click OK

Windows NT

Click Start ->Control Panel
Double Click Administrative Tools
Select Services-> Double-click on Messenger
In the Messenger Properties window, select Stop,
Then choose Disable as the Startup Type
Click OK

:ninja:

[OcramC]

ive never got one of these and messenger is permenantly active on my computer

[@driano]

Try to get messenger blocker from kazaa its good for msn pop up B)
http://www.blockmessenger.com

[XStacy]

Originally posted by @driano@19 April 2003 - 01:09
Try to get messenger blocker from kazaa its good for msn pop up  B)
http://www.blockmessenger.com
Naw, you shouldn't waste your time downloading and installing a program thats just going to take up space.

The tweak MagicNakor posted works. Since its just a tweak, you don't have to download anything else.

[monkeyhead]

Get this program called MSN Plus its a small file which is just a tweaker 4 msn

[VB]

MSN Messenger IS NOT THE SAME AS Messenger Service

[sandmanuk2003]

Nice comment Paul as stated a few posts earlier in the tabular instructions they are spot on
The messenger service description is as below.
Transmits net send and Alerter service messages between clients and servers. This service is not related to Windows Messenger. If this service is stopped, Alerter messages will not be transmitted. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.