SPYWARE - Messenger Service Pop ups
 

I dont know if this is a hole in my fire wall or what but I have adaware SE Plus and Norton Internet Security..and the messenger popups are still coming. I was so frustrated that I wiped off my hard drive and re-installed windows to start from scratch but 5 mins after the install more messenger service icons appeared. If anyone has any idea or suggestion how to make this damn thing stop please help me out.

Thanks

Here is a screen shot of the message:

http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/5...vice0et.th.jpg

I think what you need to do is go into the registry and look for regscan.exe or something similar. chances are it's somewhere in the system32 folder (just a guess)

you should've have reinstalled windows lol :P
anyways try this ...
open the Run box .. and enter "services.msc"
in the list ... find ""messenger"" service
open its properties and select startup type " disabled " and stop the service .... then restart your computer (just to be sure) ....
then telme what happens ...

^^that should work. But you don't have to restart. Just stop the service, then change it's startup property to disabled

restarting makes the newbies happie :) :P

fresh install maybe?

shutdown the service and set your firewall not to allow messages from certain programs.

thanks saadie and greywolf, that fixed the problem, I had been delaying installing sp2 just b/c I got annoyed with some of the things it wouldnt let me do but I'm going to update