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WEIRD WINDOWS POPPING UP. PLEASE HELP! by CHATTINCHIC1 on 03-17-2005 at 08:22 PM
There's a window that randomly pops up at times when I'm on the internet... the title of the window is "Messenger Service" and it says something like my computer is infected and I will have a system shutdown. And to fix it I need to go to www.fix-pc.com... and there was another address at a different time www.UPGRADENOW.com. What is this and why am I getting it? It started doing it after I downloaded Messenger Plus yesterday.
RE: WEIRD WINDOWS POPPING UP by Tochjo on 03-17-2005 at 08:26 PM
This seems unrelated to Messenger Plus!. Take a look at http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/ and http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security...more/stopspam.mspx 
RE: WEIRD WINDOWS POPPING UP by matty on 03-17-2005 at 08:27 PM
Click on Start > Run > Type in services.msc and press enter
In here find Messenger Service and double click it.
Change the Startup Type to Disabled and also click the Stop button at the bottom. Click Apply.
This has nothing to do with Messenger Plus! but it is a part of windows that allows Messages to be sent from 1 pc to another.
RE: WEIRD WINDOWS POPPING UP. PLEASE HELP! by mad_onion on 03-17-2005 at 08:42 PM
it is disabled by default in sp2