Jorjor - From what I understand, it makes no difference if you have ever used a messaging program or not, this windows messenger service is apart of windows. It is a windows service that can be turned on and off. I am not absolutely sure but I believe the purpose of this windows service is to provide communication between computers on a local network. The only way to turn it off is to go into the Administrative Tools an change the control value to off. This program will do it for you making the task much easier for those not familiar with using administrative tools.
The only way that I know of to know if this program is running on your computer is to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del which pulls up th...

Jorjor - From what I understand, it makes no difference if you have ever used a messaging program or not, this windows messenger service is apart of windows. It is a windows service that can be turned on and off. I am not absolutely sure but I believe the purpose of this windows service is to provide communication between computers on a local network. The only way to turn it off is to go into the Administrative Tools an change the control value to off. This program will do it for you making the task much easier for those not familiar with using administrative tools.
The only way that I know of to know if this program is running on your computer is to do a Ctrl-Alt-Del which pulls up the "Windows Task Manager" and then click on the "Processes" tab and then look for the windows messenger service running. I don't remember the exact name of the service... sorry.
Turning off this windows service keeps it from auto loading whenever your computer boots up which effectively plugs up this possible security hole.