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re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages'
Thursday, May 8, 2003 at 4:29 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bob B
(2307 messages posted)
Turn off the Messenger Service - it has no use for home machines and allows spammers
to use the netsend command to make the popups happen...
On Wednesday, May 7, 2003 at 11:04 pm, Rick Towle wrote:
>I installed ad-aware on my computer and ran it and quarantined everything that was
>in the list after I did my scan and then deleted it. But I still get porn that pops
>up and takes over my screen. I have to hit CTRL ALT DEL to bring up my task manager
>and end the task in order to get rid of it. I don't know how these adds came to
come
>onto my computer. But I don't want then showing up. What can I do to get rid of
them
>so they no longer come up when I am connected to the internet?
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