What's these pop-ups about?

[plindboe]

There have appeared these strange pop-ups on my computer, saying it's a Messenger service at the top of each pop-up. They appeared first some days ago, and the first one said that I had to visit some link(www.messengerservice.info) where I would find tools to remove this Messenger Service. Now, I don't want to install some unknown bogus program on my puter, without being sure what it is about. The next billion of pop-ups appeared every time I clicked OK, and was similar to the usual spam that I get over mail. Instead I uninstalled my Messenger chat program, and the pop-ups didn't appear for some days. I even cleared all my firewall info, so I could start all over, by only granting in- and out-going connections to programs I trust.

Now, there's a freaking pop-up again saying that I have Messenger Service enabled, and gives me the link to find the tools to uninstall it. What's all this crap about? Shall I trust that www.messengerservice.info thing and get the tools, or what shall I do to get rid of those strange pop-ups?

[FFed]

Go into your services and disable messenger.
admin tools
services
right click on messenger, properties
choose disabled from the pulldown, ok

you don't need to install any software to stop that spam.

[CFLarsen]

Or, you can remove it completely:

Control panel
Add/Remove applications/programs
In the left sidebar, click "Add/remove Windows components"
You'll get a list of programs. Scroll down and unclick "Messenger".

[plindboe]

FFed, I have a danish version of XP running, so not sure where "sevices" is. Perhaps some dane can translate where these "services" might be?

CfLarsen. there isn't any Messenger at all in that list. I installed the program nearly a week ago.

[FFed]

start, run,
type
services.msc
ok

[CFLarsen]

Originally posted by plindboe
FFed, I have a danish version of XP running, so not sure where "sevices" is. Perhaps some dane can translate where these "services" might be?

CfLarsen. there isn't any Messenger at all in that list. I installed the program nearly a week ago.

Kontrol panel
Tilføj eller fjern programmer
Tilføj/fjern Windows komponenter

Og den er ikke på listen??

[FFed]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/learnmore/stopspam.mspx

[Vitnir]

In swedish its called "Tjänster", it could be similar in danish
but its easier and geekier to get it by running services.msc

[plindboe]

FFed,

I think I have deactivated it now. Hope it works.

Thanks for the help guys. :)