Dracoro

I keep getting a window (windows message window, not a IE pop up) from Janita looking for a Boy (+ one or two others).

How do I stop this? I remember an option in Windows setup to prevent certain messaging popups but can't remember it.

I'm no Boy anyway (I'm a man! ) so Janita is out of luck and she can p1ss orf.

CarpetCleaner

I thought you meant a cleaner as in hong kong phooey

Dream Weaver

It in windows messaging service somewhere. You need to turn this off.

Brendan Hughes

Could it be Penry, the mild-mannered Janita?

PG

good call Dracoro I want rid of this too
Running XP where do I find the 'turn off' tool??

ChrisB

For 2000/XP:

Right click My Computer
Manage
Drill down the tree on the left to find Services
Set the Messenger service to Disabled

Note : this isn't anything to do with the MSN Messenger chat applet

Just a point:

If somebody can talk to the Messenger on your PC, then either you don't have a firewall or it's not working properly.

Time to check folks! ZoneAlarm is free.

Fig

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services

Scroll down to Messenger. Click Stop first, once the service has stopped click the drop down box called "Startup type" and choose "Disabled"

You should not do this if your network relies on the administrator sending/receiving system messages, as this is the tool used.


Note that this service has absolutely nowt to do with MSN/Windows Messenger - just Microsoft makinglife difficult by duplicating names again

Fig

Touche

PG

thank you very much guys

Dracoro

Sorted, thanks chaps!

DazV

Rosemary the telephone operator ?

Markus

This explains why we've started seeing messages on the servers. Thought it might be messenger service, think I'll turn it off then!

ChrisB

Some server applications use Messenger for alerts eg BackupExec.

I'd check my firewall config first - it shouldn't be getting through!