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Originally posted by the_artist
Incidently, this reminds me of a problem I had a while back with the "Messenger" pop ups through Win2000 (not sure if it applies to XP). I'd get annoying adverts poping up randomly, including one selling a program to stop the adverts. Funny thing was that all you actually had to do was stop the messenger.exe from starting up in the first place... had me confused for a while, as I was getting confused with MSN and the NT message broadcaster (messenger.exe is actually the later)... Its all a bit cryptic really...
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You actually need to have Messenger Service running - it's a method for programs such as Anti-Virus software to communicate with you. For example, AVG will alert me when it finds a virus if I download a file or insert a CD or something. It will not be able to do this without Messenger Service running (in which case I'd have to run a manual virus check).
The way to stop these Messenger pop-up ads is to have a firewall running - once I installed Zone Alarm it stopped them all.
It's not recommended to disable the Messenger NT Service (XP and Win2K).
- S