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Apr 16th, 2003 at 4:25pm

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I have been getting hit by spammers using the ms messenge service when on line, sometimes 9 or 10 in a few minutes -- I found it extremely annoying, so I found out how to disable it (it is on win2k and xp but needs to be installed on win98). One of them has offered a program to prevent the very problem he is creating so in revenge, I am providing some instructions to disable it for yourself (free):

Click on the Start button
Open the Control panel.
Go to Administrative Tools.
Double-click on Services.
Scroll to Messenger.
Double-click on Messenger
Click Stop to stop the service.
Change the Startup type to Disabled.

These boneheads are too much!!
 
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Reply #1 - Apr 16th, 2003 at 4:32pm

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i just recently found this out and it was a life saver but completely forgot how to do it again so thanks for posting it and anyone else who has the problem, i do suggest you try it out its extremely helpful
thanks lew
 
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Reply #2 - Apr 16th, 2003 at 4:59pm
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A good firewall stops them too.
 
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Reply #3 - Apr 16th, 2003 at 9:47pm

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I don't get any, and let them try!
 
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Reply #4 - Apr 17th, 2003 at 1:30am

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Cheers Lew, that is a v.handy tip.

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Reply #5 - Apr 17th, 2003 at 3:20am

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Thanks for the tip Lew! I've been getting them too just in the past 48 hrs.....

Not any more hopefully  8)
 
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