Re: Messenger Pop-ups

From: Adam Wood [MVP] (adam@adamwood.com)
Date: 04/06/03 

From: Adam Wood [MVP] <adam@adamwood.com>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 17:29:25 +0100

In article <014e01c2fc4f$da86f9d0$2f01280a@phx.gbl>, trash4@mnine.com says...

> I've been getting pop-ups consistantly through Windows
> Messenger. Reads basically like this below? Is this some
> other pop up running on my computer or is messanger
> actually being taken advantage of?

It almost certainly means that people on the Internet are connecting to your
messanger service and sending these messages. Either configure the messenger
service not to start, or use a firewall to block port 135. 

-- 
Adam Wood

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