Those annoying pop ups A few weeks ago I started to receive pop-ups (15 or 20 a day) from 2 companies offering to sell me software that would stop unsolicited pop ups from appearing for $20 - blackmail !! I couldn't find a way of stopping them with my Norton Firewall, but after a few phone calls I found a simple way to block them as follows
> "Control Panel" --> "Performance and Maintenance" --> > --> "Administrative Tools" --> "Computer Manager" --> > --> "Services and Applications" --> "Services" > then on the right hand side look for "Messenger" > double click on it and in the StartUp type > select Disabled instead of Automatic
My answers
Those annoying pop ups
A few weeks ago I started to receive pop-ups (15 or 20 a day) from 2 companies offering to sell me software that would stop unsolicited pop ups from appearing for $20 - blackmail !! I couldn't find a way of stopping them with my Norton Firewall, but after a few phone calls I found a simple way to block them as follows
> "Control Panel" --> "Performance and Maintenance" -->
> --> "Administrative Tools" --> "Computer Manager" -->
> --> "Services and Applications" --> "Services"
> then on the right hand side look for "Messenger"
> double click on it and in the StartUp type
> select Disabled instead of Automatic