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Title: anoying pop up occuring
Post by: white fly on April 08, 2004, 14:50

i keep getting this annoying grey box poping up eg. Hi i'm Iris , and i'm a student from london , click ok to visit my web page and have a chat , do you have a web cam ?

it is really starting to bug me now , im getting sick of it , is there any way of me being able to stop it , and have any of you had it before ?

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: Simon on April 08, 2004, 15:09

Sounds like Messenger Spam.  Have you got it running?  I think you can block all users not on your list in the Options.

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: white fly on April 08, 2004, 15:13

ok , thanks simon , i'll give it a shot  :)

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: TR on April 08, 2004, 15:19

Quote from: white fly on April 08, 2004, 14:50

 Hi i'm Iris , and i'm a student from london , click ok to visit my web page and have a chat , do you have a web cam ?

Sounds like somebody I know WF  ;D

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 08, 2004, 15:21

ok whitefly in control panel go to administrive tools and go on messenger and disable it... it shud stop  ;)


PoD

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: white fly on April 08, 2004, 15:22

was that a hint of sarcasem there hook  ;)

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: white fly on April 08, 2004, 15:23

thanks PoD   ;)

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: white fly on April 08, 2004, 15:28

PoD , are you going to the computer fair tonight at the mansfield civic center , were goin just for a look round  :)

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: TR on April 08, 2004, 15:29

Quote from: white fly on April 08, 2004, 15:22

was that a hint of sarcasem there hook  ;)

For anybody that knows me WF..would never enter my mind that is Sacarsm I mean  :-X

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: white fly on April 08, 2004, 15:29

ok , thanks all , i think i've disabled it now  ;)

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: Dack on April 08, 2004, 16:19

The other one to check is the messenger service under XP.

Start->run
SERVICES.MSC
Find, stop and then disable the messenger service

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: white fly on April 08, 2004, 16:25

thanks

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 12, 2004, 23:05

dint go to computer fair WF i in ireland at my dads  :P  


PoD

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: white fly on April 18, 2004, 20:14

Quote from: Jonah on April 08, 2004, 15:21

ok whitefly in control panel go to administrive tools and go on messenger and disable it... it shud stop  ;)


PoD

ok , gang i havent sorted it and when i did what jonah told me to do above i couldn't find messanger in administrive tools  ??
What should i do ?


 matt

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: Simon on April 18, 2004, 20:38

1. Click Start, Control Panel, and open the "Administrative Tools".

2. Within the Administrative Tools window open "Services".

3. Locate "Messenger" and double click the icon to open "Messenger Properties"

4. Within the "Messenger Properties" set the "Startup Type" to disabled and click the "Stop" button.

5. Click the "Apply" button and close out of all windows.

Hope that sorts it for you.   :)

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: white fly on April 18, 2004, 20:54

done it si , just waiting to see if a box pops up  ;)

Title: Re:anoying pop up occuring
Post by: BIG_J on April 21, 2004, 20:32

Hey don't know if this might help, but usually with pop ups there is a tracking cookie or data miner that comes with viewing a certain web site and you can get rid of those with ad-aware, there is a free version 6.0 that you can download from lavasoft.  Hope this can help as well