re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 6:45 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE (4310 messages posted) MS tweaked the default settings for the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) built into XP in Service Pack 1/1a, and that tweaking is capable of stopping classic Messenger Service spam popups. If you do not have XP SP1/1a, this is a good reason to apply it. If you do have SP1/1a, did not mess with the ICF settings, and are still getting popup spam, it's most likely that these are not Messenger Service popups. One of the many available popup stoppers should either reduce or almost eliminate the popups. I just notice that Google's new toolbar has a built-in popup stopper. Written in response to: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (Gayle : Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 5:00 pm) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (Steve: Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 9:33 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (Gayle : Thu, Aug 28, 2003, 5:00 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (Ricer46: Thu, Aug 28, 2003, 5:09 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (Steve: Thu, Aug 28, 2003, 5:53 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Thu, Aug 28, 2003, 6:45 pm) re: Question about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (Steve: Thu, Aug 28, 2003, 9:33 pm) 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