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Old 02-07-2003, 07:19 PM #1
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Can anyone help me. Someone gave us all a fix for these. I'm fed-up with "Janita Girl"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Was it sticks? or James? or WHO!!!!????
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Old 02-07-2003, 08:11 PM #2
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Was it sticks? or James? or WHO!!!!????
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http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru....php?tid=26564

Scroll down until you see Jon Tickle.
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An easier way, that I use is this.

Press Start

Press Run

Type net stop messenger in the box - and click OK.

Voila - no more

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Thanks Splodge0 and James and Mark.

I hope I too will be 'greyboxless'. They have been driving me


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the well do my head in they alwas appear
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proper rubbish they are
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u r suppose to click the cross and not the ok because some of them contain viruses
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Thanks Mark I have now got rid of them
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i think i have to
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I have been getting grey boxes telling me to buy software from www.endads.com, is that the grey boxes others are getting ?

I have done Mark's fix, can we have more of an explanation if possible. Will it affect MSN messanger ?
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Yes Sticks that is exactly the same popups that I was getting.

No I'm sure it will not effect MSN in the slightest.
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The messenger service was designed as a way administrators could broadcast messages over an organisation's network to all the users.

Unfortunately Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, didn't realise it could be used for spamming purposes so they left it on as a default when they shipped Windows XP.

It's seperate from MSN Messenger so turning it off won't affect that.
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well i got xp n i aint had any since i did wot mark said
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Having used both methods ....24 hours on I am

Still

getting them
The same as Sticks and Splodge and all the others too.
Any more advice ?
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I used to get so many pop ups that it just messed up my computer so much that it was impossible to do anything. I tried all the free methods but the only thing that eventually got rid of them all was a service that I paid for.
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Thanks Mark I have now got rid of them
I take that back, I have had them twice this evening
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Just type it in again

On some computers it works permanent (mine) - on others it needs to be activated each net session

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That's a pain. Is there any way of making it permanent?
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