Just go back into admin settings and totally disable it, I did last Nov and have not had
any problems, since it is not related to MSN Msgr...Kill the beast and be done with the
annoyance..


"Croos Bustamunky" <aperronne@tds.net> wrote in message
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| I've set the Messenger service in XP to "stop" and its startup mode to
| "manual" but it keeps starting on its own anyway. I use ZoneAlarm Pro and it
| reports thousands of attempts to access the Internet each hour (sometimes
| each minute). I've used Cont_Alt_Del and ended the msmsgs.exe process, but
| it just restarts again. What other process is starting this useless (most of
| the time) process? Other than increasing Internet "noise" it really does no
| harm, but it pisses me off that it keeps doing its own thing.
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