[wardaddy]

My daughters dowloaded Imesh and some other music shareware stuff.

After that, I know get these "Messenger Service" pop-ups or popup-unders very frequently. I cannot find where they are coming from. I unistalled the sharewares (geez i miss Napster) but this stuff still keeps coming. It took me weeks to get rid of that xupiter.com garbage.

Any hints would be appreciated.

I'm running XP and cable at home on a homemade pc. Here at work, on win98 and an older pentium II and dsl, I'm as fast and no garbage at all.

My panicware stopper works 100% at work but only partially at home.

Thanks

[Clara Lou]

If you've done everything you can do manually, then my suggestion is to download Spyware Guard and Spyware S&D above, and run them. Spybot caught several items that, a few minutes earlier, AdAware had not, plus several items that AdAware wasn't designed to detect. You get a list and a choice of what to delete. I've only used it once, but I like what it did for me and will use it again. {Your home setup is the same as mine.] Download and installation couldn't be easier.

[Sir Gawain]

An ad company is using like a massive broadcast tool to basically do the equivalent of a "net send" command to IP blocks. Turn off messenger service or get a firewall.