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If you don't have a firewall, and are run NT/2K/XP, you can disable
Windows' Messenger service:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>To work around this issue, turn off
the Messenger service. To do so, follow these steps:<br><br>
1. Click Start, and then click Control Panel (or point to
Settings, and then click Control Panel).<br>
2. Double-click Administrative Tools.<br>
3. Double-click Services.<br>
4. Double-click Messenger.<br>
5. In the Startup type list, click Disabled.<br>
6. Click Stop, and then click OK.<br><br>
Note If the Messenger service is stopped, messages from the Alerter
service (notifications from your antivirus software, for example) are not
transmitted. If the Messenger service is turned off, any services that
explicitly depend on the Messenger service do not start, and an error
message is logged in the System event log. For this reason, Microsoft
recommends that you install a firewall and configure it to block NetBIOS
and RPC traffic instead of turning off the Messenger
service.</blockquote><br><br>
At 09:45 AM 9/16/2003, Dave Broderick wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Signficant Other started getting
pop ups. She says she was not even on a browser; she was doing Comcast
email using Outlook, and the pop ups kept coming. Is there a fix for
these?<br><br>
David J. Broderick <br>
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