I think The Windows Messenger Service issue was addressed and think I filed 
it in my "How To"Folder. Does this do the same thing as Shoot the Messenger? 
Myra Drew

Subj:   How to turn off Windows Messenger to stop pop ups   
Date:   8/18/2003 8:51:44 AM Eastern Standard Time  
From:   <A HREF="mailto:Mbdmom">Mbdmom</A>  
To: <A HREF="mailto:Mbdmom">Mbdmom</A>  
    

> I keep getting pop ups from endads.com telling me how to get rid of pop 
> ups. But I only get pop ups from them so I'm certainly not paying them to get 
> rid of themselves!! Mr Norton is supposed to do this for me. But he's failed 
> miserably. 

Spam is a good business, isn't it?
It is obviously a good business to spam others and ask others to pay to get 
rid of the spam. EndAds.com did it and BlockMessenger.com is doing it too. This 
is what I call: ROBBERY.
Simple steps to turn it off
The easist way to stop receiving this kind of message is to turn off Windows 
Messenger service. If you are running Windows XP or Windows 2000, following 
these steps:
Click Start button on your Windows taskbar. 
Click Run... 
Enter "Services.msc" (without quotation marks) and click OK. 
Browse the list till you find "Messenger" in Name column. 
Double click it. The Messenger Properties (Local Computer) dialog box comes 
out. 
Choose "Disable" in "Startup type" drop down box. 
Click OK.
It will definitely work. If you don't believe that so simple steps can stop 
the annoying pop-ups, see the comments of about 100 people on this page

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