Simviation Forum - Messenger Service

Mar 31^st, 2005 at 5:00am

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After reinstalling WinXP, I get bombarded with popups from a "Messenger Service" thing, all referring to the poor safety on my PC and giving URLs to purchase various fixes and programs.

How can I get rid of this service PLEASE ?

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Reply #1 - Mar 31^st, 2005 at 6:10am

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Is It Spyware? ???
Try Ad-Aware..

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Reply #2 - Mar 31^st, 2005 at 7:21am

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http://web.ask.com/web?q=How+Do+I+Turn+off+Microsoft+Messenger+Service&o=0&page=...

Sixth one down looks like it oughta do it...

Also after you reinstall sp2 it should turn it off for you.. Wink

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Reply #3 - Mar 31^st, 2005 at 12:16pm

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Andrew & Lover,

Hurray, so simple I wish I could think of it myself.

Messenger turned off, now hoping will not come back.

Big Thanx from Luke, nee ulindel

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Reply #4 - Mar 31^st, 2005 at 3:04pm

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shouldn't be a problem after you turn it off, unless you get some sort of spyware that manually turns it back on again.. Wink

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Reply #5 - Mar 31^st, 2005 at 3:05pm

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shouldn't be a problem after you turn it off, unless you get some sort of spyware that manually turns it back on again.. Wink

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Reply #6 - Mar 31^st, 2005 at 8:02pm

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That service is just the most obvious of all the useless services running on XP.

Check this out and proceed with caution:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

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Reply #7 - Apr 1^st, 2005 at 4:09pm

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Agreed....very easy to disable.

Great edit, Bob.&&&&&&Google it. &&&&www.google.com

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Reply #8 - Apr 3^rd, 2005 at 6:18am

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It was designed as an easy way to allow administrators to notify users over a LAN. It's totally useless outside this scenario.

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Reply #9 - Apr 3^rd, 2005 at 6:32pm

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It was designed as an easy way to allow administrators to notify users over a LAN. It's totally useless outside this scenario.

Even within a lan its entirely useless. There are so many better ways to do what this service is for. Its MS, huh.

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