Msn messenger spam

[Twiz]

just wondering what you think about the spam running through msn messenger chats(this may just affect me if so ignore me), it used to just be through email so I could just block senders, but now it goes through msn messenger and I really don't want to block these people, but neither do I want constant spam!:(

[notnotbob]

Originally posted by Twiz
just wondering what you think about the spam running through msn messenger chats(this may just affect me if so ignore me), it used to just be through email so I could just block senders, but now it goes through msn messenger and I really don't want to block these people, but neither do I want constant spam!:(

I've never heard of spam coming through msn messenger convos. Are you sure you don't mean the windows messenger service? If so, it's a simple problem to solve. All you really need is this (http://www.grc.com/files/shootthemessenger.exe) free tool.

Of course, you should always have a firewall too. Some good free ones are:

Sygate (http://wcarchive.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/winxp/secsys/spf.exe )
Kerio (http://eu.download.kerio.com/dwn/kpf4-en-win.exe)
ZoneAlarm (http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/1012_zl/zlsSetup_45_538.exe)

[Lewiji]

Firewalls wouldn't stop it, it happens a lot on aim through aimbots but msn's generally more secure. You can get spam by posting your hotmail address on sites, always put [nospam] in the middle, for example twiz@[nospam]hotmail.com, that way spiders can't read it.

[HiTmAN]

Click Tools on the main window, then click Options. Go to the Private tab, and check the "Only people on my Allow List can see my status and send me messages" box, and click OK.

It should stop the messages.

[mini_ninja_pir8]

i dont get spam through my msn

(yet again i have 6.0, and a pop up bocker,)

im not too sure whether im behind a firewall, even though it says i am,although sometimes i cant sing in2 msn coz of a proxy setting i have(got that ever since i put the wall up)

[Tofufi]

Is there any way of removing the annoying adverts for msn messenger (whilst talking about msn)

[plattbridger]

Well MSN Plus removes the banner ad amongst it's many other oh so handy features and functions.

[Tofufi]

but it also gives some kind of spyware last time i knew, and I wasnt aware it was availible for msn 6

[plattbridger]

Virtually everyone was caught out by the fact that they had updated their version of MSN but hadn't updated their version of MSN Plus. So it didn't work.

But obviously it took a while for the MSN Plus update to come out after MSN 6 but yep it's been out for quite sometime now.

[HiTmAN]

Originally posted by Tofufi
but it also gives some kind of spyware last time i knew

It only installs the spyware if you tick the box asking it to.

[Twiz]

:( sorry i didnt mean spam, i meant like people sending annoying things(if you dont pass this on in 10 minutes...) sorry bout that

[Tofufi]

Originally posted by HiTmAN
It only installs the spyware if you tick the box asking it to.

shows I should read the installation instructions :rolleyes:

[plattbridger]

They're very crafty you have to go into Custom Installation, otherwise it just installs it on your computer.

[Chadwin]

Never had spam on msn. (Or dose that count as the porn E-mails i get)

[vampiress]

http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup or this link http://www.pchell.com/support/removemessenger.shtml

both give nice step by step on how to disable windows messeger service, which is different than msn.

yet another reason why bill gates is evil.

[hoogiman]

Perchance did you install something from www.wgutv.com? try this: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.buddylinks.html