Re: msmsgs.exe--what is it?

From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 05/18/04 

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:39:31 +1000

It's windows messenger. Look for green or red man next to clock. 

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And the band played ....
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/14/1084289883713.html
"Jim Madsen" <justme@nobody.com> wrote in message news:ehdK%235GPEHA.2996@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I got my new Dell XP Home computer going over the weekend :)  Installed 
> firewall, ms updates, adaware, antivirus, no problems so far.  Have a 
> few questions, and will ask them one at a time.
> 
> My firewall has a lot of these messages in it:
> 
> An instance of "C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe" is preparing to 
> access the Internet
> 
> What does that mean?  I did a search, and get the feeling it has 
> something to do with popups, but not sure.
> 
> Jim

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