re: Question about 'Pop-Up Spam' Tuesday, August 19, 2003 at 6:02 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by MJB (1166 messages posted) To prevent these pop-ups in IE6 you need to do 2 things: 1st - Start- run - type services.msc - OK When services comes up scroll down to messenger turn off service then Right click and select disable. 2nd - Get a good fire wall like ZoneAlarm This will stop nearly all popups you are concerned about. Good Luck, ---MJB--- On Tuesday, August 19, 2003 at 12:15 am, Jon wrote: >I have a question about Stop >Pop-Up Spam Messages: > > >You know, all these stinking pop-ups from companies who claim that I need their program >to stop pop-ups is really pathetic. Especially when the only pop-ups I get are from >them! I was wondering 2 things... > >1.) is there any way to stop these pop ups >2.) is there any way to sue these companies, cause I know hundreds that would jump >on the bandwagon... Written in response to: Question about 'Pop-Up Spam' (Jon: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 at 12:15 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Pop-Up Spam' (Jon: Tue, Aug 19, 2003, 12:15 am) re: Question about 'Pop-Up Spam' (Adam Bradley: Tue, Aug 19, 2003, 1:11 am) re: Question about 'Pop-Up Spam' (smp_uk: Tue, Aug 19, 2003, 1:24 am) re: Question about 'Pop-Up Spam' (tancy: Tue, Aug 19, 2003, 2:30 am) re: Question about 'Pop-Up Spam' (MJB: Tue, Aug 19, 2003, 6:02 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum