Free messenger service blocker

Direct IP Spam is the fastest growing type of unsolicited advertisement on the Internet today! It was estimated to have been growing as much as 1500% a month.  We have seen a severe decline in this type of popup since Windows XP SP2 was released.

ISPs and governments are powerless to stop it. There are no laws governing these types of messages. Even if you can track down the sender of these popups, there is no legal way to stop them!

These messenger service popups were originally intended to be used as notifications on a corporate network when print jobs completed, or an administrator needed to reach a user in a hurry.  Leaving this enabled on Windows XP Home was an oversight by Microsoft that has been corrected with the release of Service Pack 2.

Windows Vista comes with the Windows Messenger Service disabled by default! 

If you have seen dialogs similar to example on the right, then you have been hit by the latest fad from spammers: Direct IP Advertising (AKA messenger service spam). Spammers can blast your IP address with IP Ad messages and you are unable to trace them! And because they are not the "normal" form of spam most Spam Blocker programs cannot block or even detect them.

These messenger service popup messages can be sent to your computer through a built in feature (Windows messenger service ) that Microsoft included in your copy of Windows 2000, NT, or XP (Windows 98 and ME do not have this "feature"). These types of spam messages are worse than e-mail or normal popups since there is not a need to have an e-mail account or web browser to receive them!

Download our free messenger service blocker

NOTE:  You do not need this software to turn off the service, we only provide it as a service to those who do not understand how to turn it off manually.  You can manually go to your control panel services and set the service to disabled.