Looking for "killthemessenger" prog.

[krag]

A couple weeks ago I found this cool little program called "killthemessenger" but I can't find it abywhere through google or dogpile. This program shuts down a microsoft spam messenger that they built in to windows. When you run it, it stops those anoying messenger popups. I want to get rid of them cause i just got my cable modem today and I am getting those messages again. Thanks, krag

[Oni]

Why not just disable the Messenger service

Start | Run | services.msc | browse to the Messenger service | Right-click.

On the properties sheet, change Startup Type to Disabled, then click the 'Stop' button. Voila!

[OSUmaxx]

Like Oni said, you can do it yourself in about 10 seconds :)

[krag]

Originally posted by Oni
Why not just disable the Messenger service


Cause me dum not know how to before Oni tell me too! Duuuuhhhhooohhh!!:-/

Heh! Thanks bro!!! I didn't know it was that easy!

[ElGriton]

Got this from the description in the Services box.
" Messenger Transmits net send and Alerter service messages between clients and servers. This service is not related to Windows Messenger. If this service is stopped, Alerter messages will not be transmitted. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start."

The way I get it off is to run a batch file. Heres how to make it. Open any text editor and paste this
"@echo off
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
@echo REGEDIT4>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
@echo.>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
@echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express]>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
@echo "Hide Messenger"=dword:00000002>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
@echo.>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
regedit /s %TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg"

Save it as RemoveMsgr.bat. This will uninstall Windows Messenger. The problem I'm having is keeping it uninstalled. It reinstalles itself all the time.

[cornbread]

http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm

[krag]

AHhhhhh, so it is "shoot" instead of "kill." thanks bro!!

[cornbread]

Your welcome :)

[mbentley]

Originally posted by ElGriton
Got this from the description in the Services box.
" Messenger Transmits net send and Alerter service messages between clients and servers. This service is not related to Windows Messenger. If this service is stopped, Alerter messages will not be transmitted. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start."

The way I get it off is to run a batch file. Heres how to make it. Open any text editor and paste this
"@echo off
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
@echo REGEDIT4>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
@echo.>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
@echo [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Outlook Express]>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
@echo "Hide Messenger"=dword:00000002>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
@echo.>>%TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg
regedit /s %TMP%\RemoveMsgr.reg"

Save it as RemoveMsgr.bat. This will uninstall Windows Messenger. The problem I'm having is keeping it uninstalled. It reinstalles itself all the time.

don't remove it. just disable the service. check exactly what oni said above and you'll be fine. there are no normal programs that rely on windows messenger that will fail...

[Oni]

The Messanger service is only really useful in corporate environments where administrators have to get a message to everybody very efficiently. Unfortunately, this useful service has been fouled by the Advertising Machine. :(

[krag]

Hmmmm, don't know what happend after "many" reformats/installs since this thread I have once again come under the grip of these annoying popup messages. I even use the Google toolbar and its nice "popup blocker" which has served me well for the last year. Up until this last week all was good. I hope this (disable Messenger services) takes care of the problem. I use Spybot S&D 1.3v all the time but it still doesnt' solve the problem.

We'll see....

[I.M.O.G.]

Is there anything that seems to be found in each scan that doesn't go away?

You could always just post a HJT log and let us look at it also - might reveal something.

[krag]

I just checked. And yes there is.

This is what it looks like before I do the reboot and Spybot fixes it.

I know the DSO Exploit is a bug not spyware. but the other certainly is a form of scumbag ware..... :mad:

[krag]

This is what I have after the "supposed" 'reboot so Spybot can fix these problems.'

Can I just follow the registry string to the file and manually delete it? Will that take care of this?

[krag]

Problem fixed....went back to the registry key and removed it manually.

[I.M.O.G.]

That will work. CWS is also infamous as being quite nasty amongst the spyware crowd, and merjin produced a tool just for it - CWShredder. You might try giving it a run to ensure that everything is gone. He is also the maker of HJT, another terribly useful tool.