Or you can get a firewall and have it auto-block the messages, along with all the other trojan horses and port scans. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...DIR#>/wink.png

Yea..firewalls would work too, but the average user doesn't want/or know how to go through and set that up..etc.





All this love in the air,lol..sure is spring. I just figured I'd share the wealth, cuz god those ******* things annoy the hell out of me...its like, you leave your computer for 10minutes to get something to eat..come back, bam..like 20 of 'em...

what gray messenger service pop-ups are u talking about? pic if possible

I just turned them back on..some gimme a sec til one pops up..

https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png Thanks for the tip just used it.

Mine says that the messenger hasnt started...most likely meaning ive already disabled it...COOL IM AWESOME!

bart3lz...the messenger service boxes look like this:





and yea..if it says it hasnt started, you already have the service disabled and shouldn't have been getting the boxes to begin with..

i've never had one throughout my hole time of owning a computer