, The Associated Press 2003-10-23
Even more annoying than junk e-mail are all the spam messages that "pop up" through a little-used feature in Windows. As part of its spam-fighting efforts, America Online has been turning off that feature for its customers without telling them.
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goto administrative tools
goto services
scroll down & look for "Messenger"
right click on it, and goto properties
click STOP
then change it from Automatic to "Manual OR Disabled"...
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