Re: Recent pop up
- From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:47:17 -0500
From: "dave" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| We just started receiving a pop up labeled "Messenger service" that claims we
| have 55 critical system errors and should immediately go to:
| www.regfixit.com and install registry update.
|
| We ran all of our anti virus software and nothing came up.
|
| 1. Is this just a pop up to sell us something we don't need?
| 2. How do we get rid of it?
|
This is a NetBIOS Pop-Up spam message received via the Messenger Service.
Open a Command Prompt and type the following commands...
sc stop Messenger
sc config Messenger start= disabled
It also means that you MS Networking is open to the Internet.
If you are connected to Broadband Internet I strongly suggest a Cable/DSL Router such as the
Linksys BEFSR41. If you had this in place, you would NOT have received these Pop-Ups.
As always I suggest blocking both TCP and UDP ports 135 ~ 139 and 445 on *any* SOHO Router.
This will completely block out these NetBIOS messages and block hackers and Internet worms
from attacking your PC.
I also suggest that you install WinXP SP2. It would have disabled the Messenger Service and
provided the FireWall and other security measures.
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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