But to combat this, MS is disabling windows messenger in XP SP1 due out early next year......It won't due much for the 2000 and NT users though.... -----Original Message----- From: Todd Walker [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 5:53 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Pop-up extortion ads! Brilliant! This new story is brought to you by M$NBC, M$ being the company that made this type of extortion so easy in the first place... http://www.msnbc.com/news/990075.asp?0cv=CB10&cp1=1