There’s a computer here that we only use to communicate via MSN messanger to people. I don’t use it myself - it is used by a colleague who is involved in testing and needs it to talk to people on the other side of the world.
Tonight it seems to be accumulating popups out of no-where. The only program (other than TSRs) running is MSN Messenger, no browser windows or anything else. Messenger has always been running, ever since the computer was put there about a month or two ago. Yet the thing collects popups.
Is messenger causing them, or is there some new way for popups to annoy us?
It’s MSN messanger and it’s on Windows 2000. It can’t be disabled as it is necesary.
I was wondering if popups could be being caused by something else as (for a long time) the computer didn’t get popups (other than the ones from webpages)
But if it turns out it is due to MSN messanger then I guess we’ll have to put up with them.
If the popups are monochrome with an OK button – like a Win2k warning window – then they are probably Messenger spam. You can turn off Windows Messenger to stop them. That won’t affect Microsoft Messenger.
The popups may be cause by other things. Run Ad-Aware or Spybot to see what they find, and see about getting Pop-up Stopper or a firewall such as Zone Alarm.