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Post by SNK! on Jun 29, 2003 12:48:28 GMT -5
Does anyone else get these awful grey pop ups? The ones that say "messenger" on the top and the only way to close them is to click "okay". Also, does anyone know how to get rid of the awful bastards? (and don't send me awful comercial sites like www.killmessenger.com or http://www.blockmessenger.com) This time I really think advertisers have gone WAY to far. It's almost impossible for me to play Warcraft 3 online because everytime I get one of these awful things, Warcraft has to minimize itself and I have to click okay on the pop up. Minimizing and un minimizing warcraft 3 takes about as much time as closing and opening it. I really don't think it's fair to send spam to people who arn't even on the god damn internet. Edit: Okay, I figured out how to stop them...here's what you do. note: this is only for XP Go to control panel, then go to "Performance and Maintenance" then to "Administrative tools" then to "services" then scroll down until you see a program called "Messenger" double click it and then click "Stop" and then change the "start up type" to "Disabled" and Voila. Bye bye Computer Cancer. |
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Post by Zynx on Jun 29, 2003 13:00:25 GMT -5
Those are terrible. Whenever I play a game, those damned things pop up and disrupt me. These advertisers should be drawn and quartered.
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Post by SNK! on Jun 29, 2003 13:08:07 GMT -5
I would appreciate it if you guys let me know if that above method works for you. It seems to be workign for me, but these messages are unpredictable at times. (sometimes not coming for an hour, sometimes you'll get 3 within a minute)
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Post by moojuice on Jun 29, 2003 13:33:35 GMT -5
Damn I hate those things. And even further, I only have 98. I'm totally damned, huh?
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Post by SNK! on Jun 29, 2003 18:07:54 GMT -5
Damn I hate those things. And even further, I only have 98. I'm totally damned, huh? No, because these pop-ups only work for XP and Windows 2000. Liar  |
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Post by Jaggy on Jun 29, 2003 19:59:26 GMT -5
Odd. I've never gotten one of those, but then I just noticed that none of the messengers that I use have ads on them (I'm using deadAIM). I think the pop up ads that advertise pop up killers are just stupid though.
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Post by SNK! on Jun 29, 2003 20:01:58 GMT -5
Odd. I've never gotten one of those, but then I just noticed that none of the messengers that I use have ads on them (I'm using deadAIM). I think the pop up ads that advertise pop up killers are just stupid though. Messenger is something completely different than an instant message client. |
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Post by Zynx on Jun 29, 2003 20:34:21 GMT -5
Yeah. If one pops up sometime soon I'll take a screenshot of it to make sure people know what I'm talking about.
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Post by Jaggy on Jun 30, 2003 0:07:48 GMT -5
Messenger is something completely different than an instant message client. I consider any instant message client to be a messenger. |
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Post by SNK! on Jun 30, 2003 0:09:18 GMT -5
I consider any instant message client to be a messenger. I'm talking about an actual program called "Messenger". (Not MSN messenger) |
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Post by Sokar468 on Jun 30, 2003 10:57:07 GMT -5
Wait, what are these messenger pop-ups for again?  |
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Post by SNK! on Jun 30, 2003 11:30:58 GMT -5
Wait, what are these messenger pop-ups for again? Key word: pop-ups. Basically it's a service built into XP so that your local system can send you alerts or something of that nature, but some darfignuton advertisers are using it to send to send penis enlargement ads. The sad thing is, most people don't know how to turn them off...and are so annoyed that they buy these 30 dollar piece of shit "messenger blockers" for something you can do in about 5 seconds. |
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Post by Sokar468 on Jun 30, 2003 12:46:53 GMT -5
Key word: pop-ups. Basically it's a service built into XP so that your local system can send you alerts or something of that nature, but some darfignuton advertisers are using it to send to send penis enlargement ads. The sad thing is, most people don't know how to turn them off...and are so annoyed that they buy these 30 dollar piece of shit "messenger blockers" for something you can do in about 5 seconds. That's funny, I never received one of those before. I've seen them on my sister's Win98 comp, most fo them were porn ads. Anyway, those sound far more annoying that the WinXP auto-update bullshit. They seriously must update Windows Messenger like 10 times a day. Actually, maybe that's why I dont receive pop-ups, because I stopped updating Windows Messenger all the time. |
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Post by SNK! on Jun 30, 2003 14:16:43 GMT -5
Alright, I re enabled them again just for a while so I could take a screenshot for you...this is what I'm talking about.  |
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Post by Sokar468 on Jun 30, 2003 14:22:59 GMT -5
Alright, I re enabled them again just for a while so I could take a screenshot for you...this is what I'm talking about. When will the spammers ever stop? Some states (such as MA) are adapting laws that fine telemarketing companies if they call someone without expressed permission (via a sign-up list). They should do the same for e-mail/pop-up advertising. The government could make a fortune off that.  |
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Thanks to SNK for doing this for me!
