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Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: RacrX on April 25, 2003, 03:41:10 PM

Not sure if this is the right place to post this.

I am getting hit by 12-30 Instant messages a night on Roadrunner (the bulk of them selling software to stop instant messages) and its pissing me off and Im sure its not helping my frame rate. Is there an easy, free, way to block my ISP from being broadcast??

Thanks,

RacrX

"Motley Aces Live"

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: Drano on April 25, 2003, 03:49:32 PM

Turn off instant messenger completely while gaming. Right click on the icon on the taskbar down by the clock and select exit. It'll shut off IM so you won't get bugged. To restart IM you'll just have to log on again.



      Drano

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: Boozer on April 25, 2003, 03:52:42 PM

sounds like you got something installed unbeknownst to you.

 take a look in control panel, those popup sales dickheads often install popup software on your machine when you're unawares, look in add/remove programs for crap you dont expect should be installed, odds are it'll even be named recognizably as such.

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: RacrX on April 25, 2003, 03:53:10 PM

I dont mean AOL IM or anything like that, there is no icon and nothing is running in the background that I am aware of. Its just a gray box with no links or anything all you can do is close them.

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: Drano on April 25, 2003, 03:55:21 PM

Quote

Originally posted by RacrX
I dont mean AOL IM or anything like that, there is no icon and nothing is running in the background that I am aware of. Its just a gray bow with no links or anything all you can do is close them.

Then what Boozer said.

       Drano

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: SixxGunn on April 25, 2003, 04:09:17 PM

I get this to from time to time.

Some anti-ad company has installed a hidden program that broadcasts your IP so more anti-ad ads can be sent to you.

A program I use and works good not to mention free is ADAWARE 6. Its a anti spy-ware program.

Do a google search for "Lavasoft Adaware" and download it.
Install it and run it I think you will be very suprised at how much spyware is on your computer.

I clean my history and internet history and defrag regularly and the first time I ran ADAWARE it found 180 hidden spyware programs on me PC.

I been running it for about 2 years now. Had Adaware 5 and updated it to 6.

It will help clean it out and speed you PC up.

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: gunahurl on April 25, 2003, 04:34:33 PM

I had this problem when I went to XP Pro, This is how I got rid of it. (This was from the Screen Saver's TV program  BTW).

Windows Tip: Stop XP's Messenger From Loading

Keep Windows XP's Messenger from loading every time you open Outlook.


Make Messenger go away

1. Go to your Programs folder.
 
2. Rename the Messenger folder to something new. ( I named mine  MessengerIHateYou ).  Messenger will no longer load when you open Outlook.
 
3. To get your Messenger back, just rename it back to Messenger and all will be restored.

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: SunKing on April 25, 2003, 04:38:13 PM

or even better to remove MSN messenger all together.

go to start, run and copy/paste this line

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove

then hit ok...

Title: Re: Instant Messenger
Post by: Silat on April 25, 2003, 04:53:16 PM

Quote

Originally posted by RacrX
Not sure if this is the right place to post this.

I am getting hit by 12-30 Instant messages a night on Roadrunner (the bulk of them selling software to stop instant messages) and its pissing me off and Im sure its not helping my frame rate. Is there an easy, free, way to block my ISP from being broadcast??

Thanks,

RacrX

"Motley Aces Live"

Get
 http://www.xp-antispy.de/index.html
 http://security.kolla.de/

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: JB66 on April 25, 2003, 06:40:18 PM

I use to get those annoying things when I switched over to Windows XP.
I read on this BB how to cure them, and several other problems that plague XP.
Here is the link, this is one of the most helpful sites around.
 
http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm

Title: You have spyware!!
Post by: Fridaddy on April 25, 2003, 09:35:02 PM

Spyware defined...
http://www.spychecker.com/spyware.html


AdAware is a good start. Also back it up with Spybot.

Adaware
http://www.lavasoft.de/

Spybot
http://security.kolla.de/

Both are free

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: DAVENRINO on April 25, 2003, 09:51:08 PM

1.Turn off Messenger in SERVICES as per Black Viper's site along with a buncha other worthless stuff.

2.Run AdAware often.

3.This thread is about your problem
http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76434

DJ229 - AIR MAFIA

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: fffreeze220 on April 26, 2003, 03:41:42 PM

RAcrX stop browsing porn sites or Ware sitez :)

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: Dingbat on April 28, 2003, 03:24:38 PM

Guys, it's the messanger service, Daverino is right on the money.  In addition, you are running some sort of firewall right?  If not you'd better get one.  I prefer hardware solutions like netgear's rp614,  If you use that you don't need to turn off the messanger service.

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: RacrX on April 29, 2003, 03:57:07 PM

Quote

Originally posted by fffreeze220
RAcrX stop browsing porn sites or Ware sitez :)

I swear I thought that http://www.nekkidsheep.com was a 4H club site :p

Title: Windows XP Messenger...
Post by: 2Hawks on May 02, 2003, 02:49:34 PM

A very quick solution to MSN Messenger in XP is to go into your registry, do a find for your "RUN" folder (two of them) and Simpley Delete the link for Messenger.

There will more than likely be a ton of other crap you might want to rid yourself of there as well

2Hawks

Title: Instant Messenger
Post by: vorticon on May 02, 2003, 07:40:01 PM

THANK YOU FRIDADDY

83 adware files and counting...