Just one good reason to Hate Windows and PCs in general!!

[chris]

What's more annoying, is that you combat one annoyance (pop-up ads, programs installing behind your back, etc), and another one comes along:

I quite often (and they are increasing in number at a fair rate), get Microsoft Networking broadcast messages (advertising "pr0n" and "warez") showing on my screen on this 2000 box.  I have no need to receive them at all, so disabling them completely would do the trick.  Trouble is, I have no idea how to do this.  I'm tempted to stop the Messenger service but am reluctant to do so in case it breaks something else.  Might give it a try anyway... those messages are really starting to irritate me.

Sooner I get an AmigaOne and a decent web browser for it (even if I have to boot into Linux to use Mozilla), the better.

Chris

[chris]

Blomberg wrote:
I got this which I suspect is the same as what you are talking about ('Tjenesten Messenger' means Messenger Service). I posted about it here and got some kind advice (along with alot of mocking :-D).

I disabled the following services:

Messenger service
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service

And guess what, they haven't been back since.
And I haven't noticed anything breaking as a result of this, so unless you are certain you need these services, I think it's safe to disable them.

I've disabled Messenger already, so I'll get rid of NetBIOS TCP/IP helper as well.... gone.  Hopefully that will stop them, thanks.

Chris