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Can be reconnoitered by spammers, the Messenger Service, one of these services. And networking, spooling files to the printer, called "services" handle tasks like event logging, these programs. But you may not be familiar with the dozens of programs running in the background on your computer, you are familiar with the software applications that you run on your computer.

It does not allow the users to respond. Messenger Service is not instant-messaging. The message appears in a popup window to alert the users. The original purpose of the Messenger Service was to allow system administrators to send a message to some or all of the users on a network.

Users receive popup spam windows that are not generated by the website they are visiting. A program freely available from the Internet allows spammers to control the Messenger Service on hundreds of thousands of computers on the Web. All Windows versions install Messenger Service and turn it on by default.

The port used by Messenger Service, configure your firewall to block port 135, if not. Most firewalls are configured by default to block access to the Messenger Service. It can be configured to block access to the Messenger Service, or you have a firewall application installed on your computer, if your computer is on a network behind a firewall.

Your best bet would be to install Service Pack 2 to turn off the Messenger Service and close several other security holes, if you are running Windows XP. But they finally wised up and Windows XP Service Pack 2 turns off the Messenger Service. Likes to leave "back doors" to your computer open, in their ignorance of computer security, microsoft.

Then click on the "OK" button. Click on the "Stop" button and then in the "Startup Type" drop-down list select "Disabled", in the "Properties" dialog box that appears. Right-click on "Messenger", in the "Services" window that appears. Then click on the "OK" button, " in the Start menu and in the "Open:" text box type services.msc. . . Select "Run. You can turn off the Messenger Service manually, if you are running Windows 2000.

Uncheck the box next to "WinPopUp". Use the "Add/Remove Programs" utility in Control Panel to view the details of "System Tools". You need to remove it, you can't disable Messenger Service, if you are running Windows 95/98/Me. Then disable the Messenger Service as described above. Select "Services" in the "Adminstrative Tools" utility, if you are running Windows NT.

Spammers will have to go back to annoying you the old fashion way - with spam email, with the Messenger Service on your computer disabled or removed, now.

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