Re: pop ups invested through windows messenger

From: x y (levinson_k@excite.com)
Date: 01/26/03 

From: "x y" <levinson_k@excite.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:55:04 -0500

You need a firewall, for starters. www.sygate.com and others are free.
Without a firewall, you've got a much larger security problem than just
pop-ups.

Here's more information:

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#pop-ups

This isn't really exactly a security issue but an annoyance [in that so far
no one has been able to steal your data or otherwise compromise your
computer using these pop-ups]. Windows XP with the ICF firewall enabled
doesn't have this problem.

To make a fully secure computer, Microsoft would have to disable a lot of
things by default, and then people would complain about that.

"CK Chan" <ckwebbit@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:008401c2c51e$63b0ff30$8ef82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA04...
> Dear All:
> Need assistance with this problem. A pop-up comes on
> called windows messenger and on it is ads. It comes on
> and I have no way of stopping it. I don't even USE
> windows messenger nor am I signed on an account for it.
> How did microsoft let this security loop hole exist ?
> Would this not mean that anyone can send messages to our
> computer as they please?????????
>
> frustrated
> CK

Relevant Pages

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  • Re: Pop Ups
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  • Re: Stopping Pop-ups
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