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Let me clear this up as there seems to be confusion. The original poster is NOT talking about the Microsoft Messenger program that is used for instant messaging. He is talking about the Windows Messenger Service which is something that network admins can use to send pop-up messages (not like a browser, but like a Windows dialogue box) to all the comps on the network so the administrator can say things like "network going down in 10 minutes!."
Thing is, spammers have discovered this as a wonderful exploit and simply have a program that sends messages to ranges of IPs, so that's why people would want to turn this off.
So, sixate's tip is a great one - but it's to remove Microsoft Messenger - the instant messaging program, NOT the Windows Messenger Service
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