Thread: HELP!!!
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Old 10-26-2004, 01:11 AM   #4
Intrepid
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Join Date: March 28, 2003
Location: Australia
Age: 37
Posts: 1,124
i added a line to my "autoexec.bat"
the line is:
"net stop messenger"

this stops the net messenger service, which allows these popups to be sent/recieved.
you can just as easily do it through command prompt by typing it in as written above, and restart it by typing "net start messenger".

That should remove the problem, and yes sometimes zone alamr does let them through, because although za may by hiding your ip, some of these sending programs send to random ips without checking if the computer is online, as this one appears to do.
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