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popus in XP
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 10:55 pm
by RubberDuckie
Every now and then I get a grey box pop up (kinda like a network message) with spam crap
stuff like visit my site ... copy in bowser
with an OK button
anyone know what this is and how to stop it?
next time I get one Ill take a screen shot to help out
it shows their IP and such
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2002 11:25 pm
by CaterpillarAssassin
yeah go into ur services and disable the messenger service
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 3:18 am
by canton_kid
I am getting random popups at sites like yahoo and ebay I don't think they are doing, plus other places also.
How is it to shut that down?
I have 2000 pro. Is that a trash file on my system causing it or in the browser.
I have spybot AND Adaware, never have found the problem causing the popups.
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 3:26 am
by canton_kid
Oh yea, I just deleted some add on in the downloaded files that was a bunch of garbled charactors,
Haven't got the popups yet tonight.
I have tiny personal firewall set up, and it has detected several attemps to enter my system from places I don't know on the net since then also.
Just got one now! Anyone know what this is?
Someone on address pD9E29168.dip.t-dialin.net [217.226.145.104] wants to send ICMP packet to your machine
It Just came in, for no apparent reason!
only this message box on PCA and a window with Yahoo open, but Idle for 30 minutes are running.
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:52 pm
by RubberDuckie
Here is the latest one I got:
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 9:54 pm
by RubberDuckie
I went to control panel...admin tools...services....and disabled messenger
Hope that helps.
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 12:08 am
by CaterpillarAssassin
thats exactly what I said to do
your welcome
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 2:28 pm
by RubberDuckie
shows to be disabled but guess what...
it is running again and I got another message...
Grrrrrrrrrr
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 5:59 pm
by FlyingPenguin
Man there HAS to be some kind of Spyware installed. I've never seen anything like that.
"Yes, penguins CAN fly. Want to see me fly? Shoot me in the face with a Desert Eagle..."
(My standard reply to people on game servers who tell me penguins can't fly)
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2002 11:51 pm
by Schwartz
It's the new rage in spamming. They just punch in a range of IPs and let the program go. It's gets your PC to display the messege through the messenger service. Like was stated earlier just disable the messenger service unless you need it. I'm sitting behind a linksys router so I have never seen one here but I have seen it elsewhere.
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2002 1:29 am
by CaterpillarAssassin
LOL FP. I didnt even realize i was using ur name!
Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2002 1:31 am
by VooDoo
Originally posted by RubberDuckie
Here is the latest one I got:
i get that one on my yahoo account
me
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 11:27 pm
by Tomuchtime
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 9:09 am
by Danielm7
Do you run a firewall? Make sure port 137 incoming is blocked, I've been getting pages of requests to hit that and they all are rejected.
Posted: Tue Oct 29, 2002 9:53 am
by TheSovereign
135 137 138 139 both tcp and udp
do them all it will definately help u