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[Matt]

Ok, recently I've been getting these popups and I don't know what they are. They are advertising stuff, and sometimes they are include porn stuff. Can someone please tell me what it is, and how I can get rid of this crap?

[Cathar]

hey,

this may sound patronising, but its a genuine ques, does it only happen when u go onto web sites.

If not, are u connected to the net when it comes up, and have u d/loaded nethin recently, cos there's a chance that the ad's were attached to it.

Is it ad's in IE???

[Steve]

a lot comes from spyware related GAIN / GATOR crap :grrr: gets installed with proggies like kazaa or imesh and the like

get along to http://www.downloads.com look for Free Surfer 2 to stop website popups and also a prog called adware to help u find and delete spyware from ur comp

[Matt]

I'm usually on ICQ and AIM when it popups up.

[Cathar]

trilogy, its prob wot stevie has said some spyware, actually this may help me with a couple of probs i'm havin at the mo, cheers

[Scott]

Does it happen to look kinda like an error box? or is it a web page?

If it's a webpage go get adaware (it's free) and scan your system. Kazaa has lots of spyware but if you remove it kazaa wont work unless you get the right patch for it.

[Steve]

Originally posted by †r¡løgý™
Ok, recently I've been getting these popups and I don't know what they are. They are advertising stuff, and sometimes they are include porn stuff. Can someone please tell me what it is, and how I can get rid of this crap?

ur pic didnt show yesterday :/ the answer is in this thread by Panther : http://www.dfhq.net/forum/showthread...&threadid=5293

which says:

The last thing for this session is that stupid Messenger spam! You ever had a message popup outa no where that said "free porn! Go to this website: www.somthing.com" or some other spam? (Look at attachment for example) I got 4 in a row today, they will log your IP if the send is successful. This can only happen to win2000, xp and NT users but it gets very annoying when I am trying to get somthing done, it closes all my programs. I found a way to disable this without downloading some stupid program that isn't needed. To disable This Messenger service do the following:
Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services > Messenger. Click stop, then from the scroll down box select Disabled. Then reboot your computer. If you recieve errors or suddeny programs aren't working enable it again. But I haven't have any spam, or errors with it off.




**disable the 'Administrative Alerts' service as well





also getting the XP updates will stop this problem

[Matt]

Thanks a lot SB. You da man.

[Cathar]

Grrr.... would you believe it, but just after I had finished reading this post, I got one of those annoying things, aah well its sorted now.

[Scott]

Yes they are a real pain in the ass. I know one is coming cause my computer will freeze for a 1/2 second before it shows. If I am playing a game it closes the game and returns me back to my desktop just to look at some stupud spam message.

[Matt]

Yep, happened to me all the time while playin. Big pain in the ass.

[STEALTH]

http://www.jmu.edu/computing/security/info/winmsg.shtml



Out of the box, Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, and XP systems allow anyone on the network to pop up messages like this on your screen. You do not need to be running any web, email, or instant messaging software. It has nothing to do with MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, or any other application. There is no need for the sender to know anything about your computer and your computer doesn't care who does it. In recent incidents, people have used this capability to spread SPAM messages like the ones above.

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