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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: donabano on 28 January 2003, 22:02

Title: MESSAGE SERVICE POPUPS
Post by: donabano on 28 January 2003, 22:02

O/S WIND 2000. While working on the net, I am continuously getting  these pop up messages, in Spanish, or English. The fact is that it is annoying as hell. I have used ad-aware to get rid of ads, but if you know a way I can disable this constant nuisance, I would appreciate it. I am not a computer genius, so I need the simplest way to get rid of it.Step by step would be appreciated.

Thanks

Donabano  :confused:

Title: MESSAGE SERVICE POPUPS
Post by: KernelPanic on 28 January 2003, 22:13

Linux.

Title: MESSAGE SERVICE POPUPS
Post by: pkd_lives on 28 January 2003, 22:23

If they are pop-ups whilst in a browser then you need to try Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org) or Opera (http://www.opera.com), for a start. There are others. Go into the preferences and uncheck the allow javascript to open windows option, or the allow pop-ups menu option. You cannot do this with IE.

However if they are the lovely pop ups that appear even when you have no browser open, then you can try configuring your firewall, which will need to be a non M$ firewall (not the one in XP). These take advantage of a bug in M$ Windows (so I understand it) that basically means you cannot stop them in that family of Operating Systems. You will need to do some reconfiguration of your network, and you will need third party software to do it.

The easiest way is to try an alternative OS and see if you really even need the M$ one you are using. As these are free of cost it would be more than worthwhile trying it out. And give you much more security.

And could you please not write anything in ALL CAPITALS, it does look rather annoying. Thanks.

[ January 28, 2003: Message edited by: Linux Frank ]

Title: MESSAGE SERVICE POPUPS
Post by: avello500 on 29 January 2003, 00:40

i use phoenix browser its great no pop ups.
same with mozilla, cousins i belive.

Title: MESSAGE SERVICE POPUPS
Post by: slave on 29 January 2003, 02:20

Don't let web pages hijack your browser for profit!!! Use Mozilla or Phoenix like these good people said!

Title: MESSAGE SERVICE POPUPS
Post by: DJ on 29 January 2003, 02:33

http://www.windowsbbs.com (http://www.windowsbbs.com) You should go here for help with Windows.

Dj

[ January 28, 2003: Message edited by: Engineer ]

Title: MESSAGE SERVICE POPUPS
Post by: Stryker on 29 January 2003, 02:34

again, i think wrong place, and if it were for here, wrong section. but to answer your question, disable messenger service in computer manager (services) or services from the administrative menu. (you need to be an administrator)

Title: MESSAGE SERVICE POPUPS
Post by: Fett101 on 29 January 2003, 06:35

"Control Panel" then "computer management" then "servies and applications" then finally to "services". Scroll down alpabeticaly. Disable
Should be called Messenger.