Kelderek is exactly correct. I've had this happen to friends of mine. There is also a fix on the www.techtv.com website. You can turn it off "relatively" easily if you are just a little tech saavy. It won't disable your MSN Messenger, just Windows Messenger. Same on Microshift for allowing such a thing and not releasing an easy fix. Microcrap, however, does not see the feature as a problem. Tsk, tsk. Laurie