disturbing messages from csrss.exe

From: Aaron Johnson (ajohnson@prontoerp.com)
Date: 02/14/03 

From: "Aaron Johnson" <ajohnson@prontoerp.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:25:44 -0800

I was getting those messages, then I installed BlackICE
Defender. The messages stopped after that. I uninstalled
a month later, and POOF... they came back again. So I
reinstalled.

>-----Original Message-----
>i get occassional pop up message box type messages
displayed from csrss.exe
>they are inevitably marketing messages to my public url
saying things like
>'your credit card info can be seen on the internet'
>so it seems its possible to run that program from a
remote user?
>i'm just hooked up with a cable modem directly to my
ethernet nic, no
>router, firewall, etc
>if that is possbile what else could be run from somebody
say just scanning
>url's?
>is there some way to find out how and who can run this
program and others?
>is it possible to better protect against this kind of
intrusion?
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