F*** Messenger!

[Mirkwo0dForest]

kAn some1 pleaz tell me how to stop these damn MESSENGER pop-ups. they just seem to appear and they are really ticking me off. not from AIM messenger, from Windows. i deleted the Windows Messenger File and they are still popping up. Help me pleaz!!

[Racing Rice]

Are you talking about ad popups?

[Mirkwo0dForest]

lots of them are ads, but they arn't from a web browser, they are like messages from windows messenger

[ChrisCantSkate]

are you on a network? like a school LAN or something

[ebpda9]

what messenger are we talking about ? do a search on downloads.com for aim pop up remover

[Mirkwo0dForest]

no i'm not on a LAN, it's NOT AIM.... how many times must i say this : WINDOWS MESSENGER

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Lol, just disable the messenger that's running as a service :)

Depending on OS: control panel --> administrative tools --> services --> messenger.exe, right click --> properties --> disable.

Messenger is great to mess with people.

[Maxvla]

even easier...

open windows explorer. go to your hard drive > program files then right click on the messenger folder and hit rename. make it anything other than messenger and windows will be unable to find it.

simple as that. and you can use it from the folder if you ever need it. as far as that goes you can rename the folder back to messenger if you want it back all the time.

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Originally posted by Maxvla
even easier...

open windows explorer. go to your hard drive > program files then right click on the messenger folder and hit rename. make it anything other than messenger and windows will be unable to find it.

simple as that. and you can use it from the folder if you ever need it. as far as that goes you can rename the folder back to messenger if you want it back all the time.

Does this method slow anything down or cause errors when windows looks for messenger?

[Maxvla]

Originally posted by 94_AcCoRd_EX
Does this method slow anything down or cause errors when windows looks for messenger?
nope. it sees that it can't find the folder and goes on with normal operations. never had any performance drawbacks with this method.

[drdingo21]

or...you can go to start>run and then copy and paste

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

and that will completly remove msn messenger

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Originally posted by drdingo21


and that will completly remove msn messenger

Do you mean windows messenger? That's what we're talking about.

[drdingo21]

lol, nope. i thought he ment MSN messenger...

[Mirkwo0dForest]

ok.... i already deleted the folder.... it still coming up, no folder.. i think i deleted MSN mes. maybe i should look for another one... no, its not AIM.

[Maxvla]

lol. you shoulda just renamed the folder and be done with it.

[ShagginJet]

No, he's talking about just like a VB based window. Like an alert window, it just comes out of no where. Says something about a message being broadcasted to his IP most likely. I get the same thing at home, sure it has something to do with porn browsing but i'm not sure what to do.

[94_AcCoRd_EX]

Originally posted by ShagginJet
No, he's talking about just like a VB based window. Like an alert window, it just comes out of no where. Says something about a message being broadcasted to his IP most likely. I get the same thing at home, sure it has something to do with porn browsing but i'm not sure what to do.

No, like we said, its windows messenger. Disable it and you won't get those.

[Maxvla]

i guess its true that some people try to make things as difficult as possible.

[ShagginJet]

This is the problem i'm talking about, he may or may not have it.

http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/134377.html

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.irc.flood.html

These windows just pop up and try to ping servers or show me messages... I hate it.

[member]

it only appears when using messenger 5.0...