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PLEASE Stop the Flash Adds- PGC Admins...
nitsu niflheim:
I need some help, any would be appreciated. I get these strange pop ups from Messenger Service. They pop up over everything, but do not stop me from doing whatever I'm doing. Think of them as a post-it note placed on the screen of my moniter. I close them and sometimes they pop up again shortly after or I won't see then again for as much as 15 to 20 minutes. They only started early this week or late last week. I have both ad-ware and spybot and used them both but neither seem to remedy this annoyance.
Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.
RickPowers:
The problems you're having sound like general problems with your computer. The ads we run don't behave that way.
The "Messenger Service" pop-ups are being sent over the network (Internet) by another computer, so it sounds like you either don't have a firewall, or have a hole open that they're using. Those aren't coming from PGC either.
Grey Ninja:
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Originally posted by: nitsujdark
I need some help, any would be appreciated. I get these strange pop ups from Messenger Service. They pop up over everything, but do not stop me from doing whatever I'm doing. Think of them as a post-it note placed on the screen of my moniter. I close them and sometimes they pop up again shortly after or I won't see then again for as much as 15 to 20 minutes. They only started early this week or late last week. I have both ad-ware and spybot and used them both but neither seem to remedy this annoyance.
Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Disable the Messenger service in your admin tools control panel. I don't have administrative access to this computer, so I can't give step by step instructions, but just search for Disabling Messenger Service in google. You should find some sort of instructions on how to get rid of those things.
The problem is a glaring security hole in Windows, not any adware. Turning off that service will just allow you to maintain your sanity.
nitsu niflheim:
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Originally posted by: Grey Ninja
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Originally posted by: nitsujdark
I need some help, any would be appreciated. I get these strange pop ups from Messenger Service. They pop up over everything, but do not stop me from doing whatever I'm doing. Think of them as a post-it note placed on the screen of my moniter. I close them and sometimes they pop up again shortly after or I won't see then again for as much as 15 to 20 minutes. They only started early this week or late last week. I have both ad-ware and spybot and used them both but neither seem to remedy this annoyance.
Again, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Disable the Messenger service in your admin tools control panel. I don't have administrative access to this computer, so I can't give step by step instructions, but just search for Disabling Messenger Service in google. You should find some sort of instructions on how to get rid of those things.
The problem is a glaring security hole in Windows, not any adware. Turning off that service will just allow you to maintain your sanity.
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I found that out just a little while ago, that it's something in windows. I have XP. One of the messages I got just after getting online had a url so i went there and read that about it, wanted to see services for like 25.00. Thanks for the heads up on how to stop it. I did something in services in admin, since I am the only user on this computer (I bought it.) I didn't have to work aroudn anything. I went into computer management then services and stopped messenger. I'll see what that does. If that doesn't work then I do a search like you said and go from there. Thanks, I knew when I saw you had posted here that you would probably know what it was. And thanks to Rick as well since he was close to what was wrong. I knew it wasn't PGC because I'd get the pop ups even if I cleared my cookies and history. Thanks again.
Grey Ninja:
Not a problem. Glad I could help.