Re: Popups
From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 04/02/04
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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 20:20:25 -0500
Hi -
Does the window title say anything about Messenger? If so, you need a
firewall. 'Messenger spam', is not in itself harmful, but is symptomatic of
a larger problem - your computer has ports open from the Internet.
You can disable the Messenger service, but that is unwise as a solution as
you'll still have the underlying problem that caused you to get the messages
in the first place - consider the messages a useful warning that you have no
protection from the Internet. This is all too important now, given the
recent rash of RPC worms....
For a standalone machine, see www.sygate.com for a free personal firewall,
or if using Windows XP, you can enable the built-in internet connection
firewall (ICF).
See http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm for more info. Also,
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/nopopups.htm is a good resource - although
for browser popups, you might want to consider http://toolbar.google.com -
it works like a champ and is also handy for searching.
Also run SpyBot and AdAware (update them both first!) to check for unwanted
creepy crawlies....
Ken wrote:
> I have recently been getting tons of popups.. I bought a
> popup ad blocker and a spyware killer and installed them
> both... I'm still getting popups.. Is there any way to
> erase my hard disk without losing Windows XP and start
> over... I don't have much on my computer (and what I do I
> can just burn onto a cd)??
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
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