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WTH - Someone just MSN me while I was not logged in

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NicColt

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MSN is not oneline

What in the bloody heck was that. I had just booted the pc and started to watch a movie and all of a sudden one of my contacts msn's me. wierd thing was that I was not loggin into msn yet.

 
Or maybe have both MSN messenger and windows messenger installed. One shows in your taskbar as offline, and the other may be online..
 
That is a Windows Messenger popup, not MSN Messenger.

Chances are, you have not disabled Windows Messenger, & somehow it logged you in (in the background tasks); hence the message.

I remember that before some Windows patches it was possible to send spam popups through the messenger service, but i doubt that's it.
 
you want to diable it?

get ad-aware SE build 1.05 then in the add ons section right click and get the plug ins (it will take you to the lava soft web site)

then get the messenger plug ins (there are 2) and the VX2 cleaner, then run all the tools, (the VX2 cleaner scans for mailware)

let us know if you need more help
 
i suggest getting ad-aware if you don't have it, also it may have a better GUI and less confusing than the services.msc
 
Oh, pleeeeze...

Yes, that's Windows Messenger. No, it's not Windows Messaging Service. Yes, you have no idea that it's loading at boot, because they introduced a bug back in the later builds of v4.7 that allows it to run in the background as a process. No, they don't consider it a bug, and they refuse to go back to the original design (MsnMsgr did not deviate from the original design). Yes, MsnMsgr and WinMsgr are two separate teams.

If you have set either MsnMsgr or WinMsgr to auto-logon, the last one to load is the proverbial "rotten egg". Meaning, WinMsgr will load and logon if it has the opportunity.

The really cool stuff is when you momentarily lose connectivity while using MsnMsgr, and suddenly receive an alert saying you've logged into a different machine...but it was just the background-running WinMsgr doing it (that has scared more than a few thousand people, trust me...and has been reported on this forum quite often).

Solution: open WinMsgr from the Start button, click Tools->Options->Preferences and uncheck "run when windows starts" and "allow to run in the background". This should solve the problem.
 
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