Ad-ware/spyware or trick to remove crap 2005-04-27 - By Oscar Juárez
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As far as i know msmsgs is windows messenger, the older soft for instant
messanging
previous to msn messenger, you can uninstall it... from windows components
or search on www.tweakxp.com a solution to uninstall it. there was one
there.
Oscar
Bernard Lebel wrote:
> Thanks everyone who answered my call. I purchased AdAware. Although it
> did find some stuff, the pop-ups kept popping.
>
> However, I may have found the fucker. There is a service running
> called msmsgs. Somehow as soon as I kill it, no more pop-ups. The only
> thing is that the service does not tell how it got started, so it will
> be a matter of killing it each time I boot.
>
> I will look into Zonelabs stuff asap.
>
>
> Alan, I am genuinely interested in what you have have posted. Could
> you elaborate? I installed nLite but it requires the Windows
> installation files, wich I think I don't have on my disk. Do I have to
> run nLite using the Windows installation CD?
>
>
> Thanks
> Bernard
>
>
>
>
> Alan Jones wrote:
>
>> If you're really serious about killing IE without killing netview - go
>> to http://nuhi.msfn.org/ and get nLite. You can use it to modify your
>> windows installation CD and get rid of some of the bloat such as
>> unwanted services, apps, wallpapers etc. You can remove the IE app,
>> but leave the IE Core which will let apps based on the IE core such as
>> netview run.
>>
>> There's also quite a bit of other stuff you can remove. I had written
>> an article on how to do it with XSI in mind, but I seem to have lost
>> it and never got to around to putting it online.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alan.
>>
>>
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