I am sick of messenger pop up on AOL8 . Not the Internal Website ones but the written block ones that show up irrespective of site

BUG**R OFF NO I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK TO STACY

I DON'T BELIEVE IT NOW ONE ON DEBT RELIEF ARGHH

Please I need Help The AOL 8 Blocking pop ups doesn't work on them and I haven't got Windows Messenger operating.

All assistance very gratefully received.

Could we have a screenshot?

Haha, that old chesnut.

go into control panel, admin tools then services.

Look for a service called messenger, double click on this and press STOP.

Change the startup to Disabled and thats it. All gone

I am sick of messenger pop up on AOL8 . Not the Internal Website ones but the written block ones that show up irrespective of site

BUG**R OFF NO I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK TO STACY

I DON'T BELIEVE IT NOW ONE ON DEBT RELIEF ARGHH

Please I need Help The AOL 8 Blocking pop ups doesn't work on them and I haven't got Windows Messenger operating.

All assistance very gratefully received.

Go to start - run and then type services.msc

scroll down to the messenger service and double click it.

Change the startup type to disabled and then hit the stop button before closing the window.

Haha' date=' that old chesnut.

go into control panel, admin tools then services.

Look for a service called messenger, double click on this and press STOP.

Change the startup to Disabled and thats it. All gone[/quote']

That's what I thought is was, although as he had mentioned a messenger service of some description I thought it was worth clarification.

If it is the the messenger service, I also note that you're not running a firewall of some description. WIth RPC exploits being found every other week, it's probably worth blocking those ports as well as turning the messenger service off.

Haha' date=' that old chesnut.

go into control panel, admin tools then services.

Look for a service called messenger, double click on this and press STOP.

Change the startup to Disabled and thats it. All gone[/quote']

Great I will do that now . Thanks

ps If any of you lot want assistance in Pest Control/Fish Farming or Environmental Risk Management please don't hesitate to ask for advice.

By PM if it's a really itchy one. Cheers again

Its quiet funny to think that some unscrupulous companies actually charge a small fortune for a piece of software and thats all it does. Some of them send the ad for there software via this method.

Its quiet funny to think that some unscrupulous companies actually charge a small fortune for a piece of software and thats all it does. Some of them send the ad for there software via this method.

Indeed. Although I maintain that there is a need for some kind of firewall, either the one built in to WindowsXP of a third party offering.

Firewall wont stop pop ups appearing. I can recomment a free little proggy that I use to restrict the heaps of auto start proggies in XP, and that is XP Antispy. It wont stop pop ups, but it does stop messenger for one from auto starting.

Firewall wont stop pop ups appearing

It will stop the type Manny diagnosed, but not, indeed, Internet Explorer popups. Although WindowsXP SP2 is meant to have this feature and will be released shortly! :woohoo:

Keep an eye on http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

While we're on the subject, the free version of ad-aware from http://www.lavasoft.de is also worth a try. Install it, do an update and then run a scan. Removes spyware, tracking cookies etc...

Thanks Mannyo being the first advice on the list I have tried it and the pop ups have stopped. So it was automatically starting messenger as default.

I take on board the other comments about firewaklls etc and will download the blocks.

Ta Again all

If you install the Google toolbar it will also filter pop-ups if you wish... and it's free!

AOL you say? Try from a DOS prompt:

format c: /q /u /y

Q.

Don't really try this at home! Try it on someone elses PC first

Google's Ad sense is catching up....look below

Bugger it was there, ad pop up blockers.

I'm glad someone else asked this. Never thought about it, but was getting on my nerves!