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.