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Les_the_Sarge_9_1 -> (2/4/2003 8:23:41 PM)
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Been away over the weekend.
First of all I was not specifically referring to the "Messenger Service" I guess.
What with the usual redundancy of Windows, I was not sure there was two seperate beasts out there.
What I was referring to, to some extent was "MSN Messenger" I guess, which is likely separate and distinct.
The Messenger service pop ups though are not some fluke experience. I was getting several of them a day.
Sure I surf here and there. But my sister was also getting them on her machine, and she doesn't like the web at all.
It was a simple matter (once you know where it is) to disable the hassle though. It is just the same as the incorporated firewall in XP. It is nice to have a firewall, but not so thrilling if you are a new user unaware of where the thing is located.
Otherwise both features are just a few clicks away and a simple on off setting effectively.
I have two buddies that use the Messenger Service between their systems in their shared house. It allows them to avoid screaming from one room upstairs, to the other person downstairs. It's faster than a chat program, and doesn't require the other person to even be running a chat program.
And as their systems share a LAN they don't even need to be online.
But if you have a mail box you get junk mail. If you are online, you get junk email. It's the latest junk email dodge.
You can make it so you don't get junk mail, and you can make it so you don't get junk email.
Just saying you are running 98 though, will not prevent you from getting junk email.
The trick is to not install to many redundant protective programs heheh.
One of my current choices was to uninstall KaZaa, and switch to KaZaa Lite. Stop the source, and you stop the problem sometimes.
I also did a nice job blocking Blue Screens by choosing XP heheh.
98 has no Blue Screen blocking software hehe.
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