Re: Computer has been hacked

From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/13/03 

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:11:56 -0400

I don't know why Bill is not telling you how to stop it with what you have. It is very easy to do. Start | Settings | Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services | Messaging Service | Double-click | Startup | Set to Manual. Reboot. 

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George Hester
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"Tom" <tneal6@cox.net> wrote in message news:0bb001c3797a$81fa6e70$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> First, thank you for answering...second, I have Zone 
> Alarm Pro for my firewall.  I am still receiving the 
> Messenger Service message - do you know how I can't get 
> rid of it?  Thanks for you help.
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I don't think you've been hacked, I think you are being 
> played a trick upon.
> >
> >The messenger service has been used by spammers for some 
> time, and now
> >someone is doing something equally unamusing with it.
> >
> >The cure for messenger service popups is a firewall.
> >
> >I can't overstress the importance of this--you need a 
> firewall, and now.
> >
> >Here's a Microsoft  page which will tell you how to 
> activate XP's built-in
> >firewall, or give you links to 3-rd party free or 
> commercial firewall
> >products:
> >
> >http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp
> >
> >
> >"Tom" <tneal6@cox.net> wrote in message
> >news:068201c378d0$e33cf720$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Today when I got on my home PC, I got a message from
> >> Messenger service telling me my computer has been
> >> hacked.  It reads message from S0028841298 to 
> S0028841298
> >> on 9//11/2003 (time).
> >>
> >> It appears to come up in a cmd window and constantly
> >> repeat itself as in a loop.
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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