The instructions for disabling Messenger in this thread will not do anything about the passport popup. Those instructions will stop spammers that are using an administrative feature of windows to get ads in front of people's faces. Unless you're running a server, you probably won't need that aspect of Messenger anyways, so it's good to have it off.

Someone needs to explain to the people using MSN graphics about the annoyance they're causing. I've posted in both forums I've seen messages that cause the popups. Apparently, whomever posted them does not read the board regularly (just often enough to keep the popups coming).

Once the messages are pushed off the front page of the site, the popup will stop coming up, until/unless you hit a page that still has them.

It irritates me enough to cut down on the number of times I'll visit this site...

Jeff