{"id":8063,"date":"2003-07-27T19:56:28","date_gmt":"2003-07-27T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2003-07-27T19:56:28","modified_gmt":"2003-07-27T19:56:28","slug":"mutating-windows-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8063","title":{"rendered":"Mutating Windows Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After adding a new service pack to my Windows 2000 install, I started to get embarassing popup spam when on the net. I don&#8217;t even <i>know<\/i> this Jennifer woman, I tell my wife. Anyway, here&#8217;s the disable protocol, which I finally bothered to look up: <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetprivacyfordummies.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=Sections&#038;file=index&#038;req=viewarticle&#038;artid=27&#038;page=1\">Internet Privacy for Dummies :: Online Resources for Readers of Internet Privacy for Dummies<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disabling Windows Messenger Service <b>Windows 2000 <\/b> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click the Start Button\n<li>Choose Settings > Control Panel\n<li>Double-click &#8216;Administrative Tools&#8217; and\n<li>double-click on &#8216;Services&#8217;\n<li>Scroll down and right-click on &#8216;Messenger&#8217;\n<li>Choose Properties\n<li>Click the &#8216;Stop&#8217; button to turn the Messenger service off\n<li>Change the &#8216;Startup type&#8217; to &#8216;Disabled&#8217; to keep it from restarting when you reboot\n<li>Click OK and you&#8217;re done &#8220;<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After adding a new service pack to my Windows 2000 install, I started to get embarassing popup spam when on the net. I don&#8217;t even know this Jennifer woman, I tell my wife. Anyway, here&#8217;s the disable protocol, which I finally bothered to look up: Internet Privacy for Dummies :: Online Resources for Readers of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mutating Windows Spam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}