Re: Spamming with Administrative Pop Up Window

From: Torgeir Bakken (MVP) (Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com)
Date: 10/31/02


From: "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:11:08 +0100


mike t wrote:

> I recently have been getting alot of advertising using the
> administrators pop up window. How can I disable this?

Hi

Block access to ports 135, 137-139, and 445 with a firewall.

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

myNetWatchman Alert - Windows PopUP SPAM
http://www.mynetwatchman.com/kb/security/articles/popupspam/

Wired: Spam Masquerades as Admin Alerts
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55795,00.html

--
torgeir
Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI
Porsgrunn Norway


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