comp spam help!!

[SaIiLdVaEnR]

Heh, I'm not computer savvy at all, I learned this from a friend for I experienced the same problem. Here it is... Start, My computer, Administrative tools, component services. A window will then pop up, click on services(local). A list will then show up, scroll down and you will find "messenger". Right click it and a list of options will appear, then click properties. Another window will appear, there will be a thing called startup type, just disable it and its gone for good.

Aidan

[daver676]

Originally posted by SaIiLdVaEnR
Heh, I'm not computer savvy at all, I learned this from a friend for I experienced the same problem. Here it is... Start, My computer, Administrative tools, component services. A window will then pop up, click on services(local). A list will then show up, scroll down and you will find "messenger". Right click it and a list of options will appear, then click properties. Another window will appear, there will be a thing called startup type, just disable it and its gone for good.

Aidan

Actually its START-->CONTROL PANEL-->ADMIN TOOLS-->SERVICES.

Find messenger and right click ,then select properties. Then under startup type, disable the *******.

[Derrick]

Originally posted by BoaBoi
Ad-Aware has a plug-in you can download to turn off windows xp messenger(NOT CHAT MESSENGERS) that does the same thing. Derrick, I couldn't bring up the services.mci, any chance you typed it wrong? I'm running XP, just says cannot find path or some BS like that.

James~

Sorry its services.msc I was going off the top of my head at work everything else is right though

[Bartman]

derricks is the simplest I downloaded antivir and adware and as a team there holding up pretty good. I had like 20 trojans..talk about infestation!

[Derrick]

what antivirus are you using. I've always AVG antivirus free version to be good. Its got low overhead and is a little quicker than norton in the detection department(in my personal testing)

[Lisa]

I get good results with trendmicro's housecall.antivirus.com

[SaIiLdVaEnR]

Oops you are right, it is not my computer it is control panel. The rest of what I wrote is right.

[Cruciform]

It's a good idea to scan a machine that you suspect is infected with more than one scanner. Not all virus patterns are in any one product. You can do free online scans at the following sites:

http://housecall.antivrus.com (run by Trend Micro, makers of PC Cillin)

and

http://pandasoftware.com

[Bartman]

with antivir, spybot, and adware i got all the ads deleted finially!