-=PCTechTalk=- Re: problem
- From: "zat" <zzzatso@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 00:11:49 -0800
This sounds like Messenger popups, not MSN messenger. If you have XP then go
into Services (Administrative Tools) and disable the Messenger Service.
Unless you're on a corporate network you don't need it running. You have to
have administrative rights to do this.
Click Start/Run then type in "services.msc" *without quotation marks. Scroll
down until you see Messenger, double click (this brings up the Messenger
Properties (Local Computer) window) then select Stop. Then in the Startup
type line select disabled. Click OK when done. This stops the Messenger
Service from running, spammers have been exploiting this Windows service for
some time now.
hth
zat
----- Original Message -----
From: "cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:08 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: problem
> boy - it sure sounds like that messenger program running in the
background - someone sent in a url the other day - I think this is it:
> http://www.icpug.org.uk/national/features/030429fe.htm
> I'll look to see if i can find any information about it being on other
systems besides winXP -
> Did you say you had a firewall ? That could help also -
> why don't you try the google toolbar - other pop up killer's have been
recommended, but this one seems to work pretty well. scroll down to tools -
I think you have to activate it. And you don't have to set it to 'phone
home' in order for it to work.
> http://www.google.com/options/
>
> but if spybot is coming up empty - this is a toughy!!
>
> crisS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: sylviavandewall
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 4:55 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: problem
>
>
> Ok Cris, I'll run panda online and if you have an adress of a pop up =
> stopper for me I'll download that also.
> Today I also downloaded the newest update from Spybot and run that but =
> it did not change the pop up ads coming. I never had that before and =
> also did never have had my icons changing just like that. I know when I =
> visit a website I get pop ups but this happens when I'm not visiting =
> websites. Even when I'm playing a card game the ads pop up.
> sylvia.
>
> make sure that you update your spybot search & Destroy - they just had =
> an update a day or so ago. and run it again.=20
> You ran housecall...
> try running panda online. It sometimes finds things that housecall =
> doesn't.=20
> http://www.pandasoftware.com/
> a lot of web pages now create pop ups, so just surfing, will create pop =
> ups. You don't necessarily need to have anything on your computer that =
> is creating them - It won't hurt to put a pop up stopper on.=20
>
> Cris
> Thanks for your help Cris but I don't have Messenger service on my =3D
> computer and I wish it was as easy as that but this has nothing to do =
> =3D
> with Microsoft.=3D20
> I looked in my control panel but in WindowsME there is nothing with =3D
> Administrative Tools.
> This looks more like there is a virus inside my computer, no use to use =
> =3D
> a pop-up killer now because it has already put itself in my computer.
> They are pop-ups with ads about Viagra and how much in danger I am.
> sylvia.
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