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Jerry,

How to stop Messenger SPAM:
Disable Windows Messenger Service

To turn off the messenger service in XP:
http://www.auburn.edu/oit/security/m...erService.html

http://makeashorterlink.com/?M4D454432
Click on the Start button and open the control panel.
Open the Performance and Maintenance control panel
and go to Administrative Tools.
Now double-click on Services, then scroll to Messenger.
Double-click Messenger and click Stop to stop the service.
Change the startup type to Disable (see an example).



"Jerry" <> wrote in message
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> Well, I want to thank most of you. I have tried just about every suggestion
> offered. The guy from Dell
> doesn't particularly like working at McDonalds, but hell, who does?
>
> I downloaded Finagle and it not only gave me the white screen it talks about
> but when I re booted
> it gave me a green background with a ripple effect and then locked up my
> machine
>
> I now have a hard disk half filled with pop up killers, spyware and adware
> removers, and just about every other program
> suggestged. HOWEVER, while most of them work and kill a particular pop up
> in its own fashion it doesn't do much
> good because if I go to the next site and/or reboot there it is again.
>
> As for the suggestion that I not go to porn sites, that would be like asking
> Brittany to cover her
> belly button. I would just as well join the Dell guy at McDonalds.
>
> What I need is not a pop up killer per se, but a program that will find the
> damn files that are obviously
> embedded someplace in my machine and eliminate them from my computer.
>
> Any other bright ideas?
>
> Thanks,
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