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Old 07-09-2003, 10:07 PM   #1
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Annoying messages

I constantly get message popups such as these. Never heard others mention it, so I'm guessing somehow it got embedded in my system. It minimizes games and explorer windows when they pop up. Any ideas how to stop it?
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Old 07-09-2003, 10:21 PM   #2
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Go into Control Panel > Admin Tools > Services and disable the "messenger service" also stop it while there.
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Old 07-10-2003, 03:56 PM   #3
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Didn't work...I got 6 of them at once today.
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Old 07-10-2003, 07:11 PM   #4
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Normally disabling the messenger service will stop this from happening but you may have bigger problems. Try clearing you IE temp files, do a thorough virus/trojan scan and run a spyware program likeAdaware or Spybot
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Ditto for adaware and spybot but there's something else you badly need and that's a firewall :http://www.zonelabs.com/store/conten...sp?lid=pdb_za1
Do you have an up to date anit-virus program ?
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