[thelist] Those damnable pop-ups

[Jay Blanchard]

[snip]
Dump-disable Microsoft Messanger... That's what it's using (and when you
load Outlook, it starts MSM
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That helped a lot. However, I am still getting an occasional pop-up,
perhaps every five minutes or so. I have thrown several
malware/spyware/av apps at it all morning, to no avail. Also, if I try
to start the machine in safe mode it hangs...