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10th Jul 2003, 02:47 PM
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my computer has weird pop up messages
The computer im using has windows constantly popping up to tell me how to get rid of the pop up windows.... and it tells me to go to www.endads.com and www.messageaway or something like that to get rid of them
when i went to the sites they want to sell you an adblocker for 30 bucks! wtf
windows XP AMD athlon 2200 224 mb of ram pro savage vid card 
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10th Jul 2003, 04:47 PM
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taking a month's break
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or simply go into services.msc and disable the 'Messenger' service
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10th Jul 2003, 05:18 PM
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3rd degree CD burns
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could you please explain how to do that deajae
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10th Jul 2003, 05:43 PM
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taking a month's break
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10th Jul 2003, 05:48 PM
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Go into the Controlpanel -> Adminstrative Tools -> Services. Find messanger, dooubleclick on it and from the dropdown select Inactivated. And also, click the button Stop , to stop the service immediately. But, I still suggest you get Ad-aware or Spybot. If you never have run any of them, you will probably have tons of spyware. And some of them eats from your bandwidth. |
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10th Jul 2003, 10:05 PM
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3rd degree CD burns
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I ran adaware but the the messenger thing kept coming back so I took deajaečs advice and disablefd messenger service
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12th Jul 2003, 09:47 AM
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That spybot is good software.
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14th Jul 2003, 06:05 AM
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Best option is to run AdAware (to look for spyware etc) and set up a firewall (to block incomming messages)
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19th Jul 2003, 04:34 PM
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of course, you could try tracing the origin of the messages, and spamming them back...
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19th Jul 2003, 05:23 PM
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taking a month's break
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disabling that service will give the sender 'unable to send netsend message to IP' just the same as trying to send it to a windows 9X box.
as for their tactics, recently a piece of software improved the net send command to allow it to be send outside of domains. i suspect this software just runs through a list of IP addresses continusly, so if we can get a few IP's and identify the file and its location, and possible holes, we could tell the software to spam 127.0.0.1 over and over again.
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2nd Aug 2003, 06:35 PM
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31st Aug 2003, 11:29 AM
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Heres one simple solution and I know for sure it'll work. The only problem is if you don't have America Online. You have to have it!!
If you do, here's how you get rid of those Windows XP targeted pop-ups. Just go to the KEYWORD box in the top toolbarclick on it and type in (MSPOP) and all you have to do is click a button that says stop messenger popups now and thats it. |
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1st Sep 2003, 10:41 AM
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Or just run the firewall that comes with Windows XP. I've had no pop-ups since I enabled it.
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