I've not had this for ages. I keep getting messenger pop ups but messenger service is turned off, there's nothing in start up, Search and destroy found nothing. I'm getting all sorts of nonsense, like this.
Definitely check to see if the messenger service is stopped and disabled. If you have previously disabled it, some malicious program may have reactivated it, or an XP system restore may have been run after the service was disabled, re-enabling it. Disable the system restore, shut off the messenger service, then re-enable system restore and create a new restore point.
If you are going to download a patch, get it from Microsoft itself, not from some spammer.
It is stopped but I did a system restore yesterday. Funnily enough I have rebooted in the last 15 minutes and they haven't come back. Strange. I'll just leave it alone for now and see what happens.
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KwitkoSheriff of Banning (Retired)By the thing near the stuffIcrontian
edited April 2004
Just double check to make sure it's stopped *and* disabled. Perhaps the system restore restarted it.
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If you are going to download a patch, get it from Microsoft itself, not from some spammer.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-043.mspx
By the way, don't you have a firewall? It should be blocking these messages regardless of whether you have the messenger service enabled or not.
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Thanks guys.
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