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i get these now and then and they piss me off cus usually its wen im playing cs.

what is it and how can i get rid of them!!???

People are sending you a message thru the windows messenger built in XP. You really should turn it off for security reasons, and to keep people from sending you these messages. To turn it off go to Start -> Run and type "cmd" without the quotes. This pops up a ms-dos window. Then type "net stop messenger" without quotes. This will stop it.

 

To prevent it from loading on start up windows (by default it does) go to Admin Tools -> Services

Find Messenger in the list and double click it. Click the drop down box beside: Startup Type: and just disable.

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ya this definitly isnt a program running... its the messenger service that

microsoft incorporated into windows for lan's so ppl could send each other messages like that... problem is noone uses it, and people can message you crap like that.... the guy that actually discovered this was Kevin from the Screen Savers on TechTV... microsoft brushed it off because they say they did it on purpose and it's not a flaw but a feature... but now plenty of ppl are exploiting it, and I even saw some programs that people are selling that purposly mass message ppl through this for their advertizing purposes.... goto services and disable windows messenger

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