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After reinstalling WinXP, I get bombarded with popups  from a "Messenger Service" thing, all referring to the poor safety on my PC and giving URLs to purchase various fixes and programs.

How can I get rid of this service PLEASE ?

Is It Spyware?  ???
Try Ad-Aware..

http://web.ask.com/web?q=How+Do+I+Turn+ ... =1&qsrc=24

Sixth one down looks like it oughta do it...

Also after you reinstall sp2 it should turn it off for you.. ;-)

Andrew & Lover,

Hurray, so simple I wish I could think of it myself.

Messenger turned off, now hoping will not come back.  

Big Thanx from    Luke,  nee ulindel

shouldn't be a problem after you turn it off, unless you get some sort of spyware that manually turns it back on again.. ;-)

shouldn't be a problem after you turn it off, unless you get some sort of spyware that manually turns it back on again.. ;-)

That service is just the most obvious of all the useless services running on XP.

Check this out and proceed with caution:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

Agreed....very easy to disable.

It was designed as an easy way to allow administrators to notify users over a LAN. It's totally useless outside this scenario.

It was designed as an easy way to allow administrators to notify users over a LAN. It's totally useless outside this scenario.

Even within a lan its entirely useless. There are so many better ways to do what this service is for. Its MS, huh.