Re: Pop ups

From: Andreas Welch (amwranes@yahoo.com)
Date: 04/16/03 

From: "Andreas Welch" <amwranes@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 22:51:43 -0500

These messages use the Windows "Messenger Service" which "Transmits net send
and Alerter service messages between clients and servers. This service is
not related to Windows Messenger. If this service is stopped, Alerter
messages will not be transmitted...."

It can be disabled through Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services
then look for Messenger. Right click on it and change the startup type to
manual (or disabled) and click the stop button. Click OK and you won't get
the messages anymore.

You could also block port 135 at your firewall (if you have one), but this
could lead to some other problems and you should research before you do it.
It also wont necessarily prevent it from happening again, just make it
harder.

Hope that helps,

- Andreas

P.S. My appologies if this shows up twice, I've been having some problems
with my newsgroup server.

"Kathy" <kjen72749@aol.com> wrote in message
news:02ca01c303c9$1742f600$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Have you ever had an adverisement pop-up out of nowhere on
> your desktop?
>
> Congratulations, you've been hit by the newest form of
> unwanted advertising, or spam. This message was sent to
> your computer through a built in feature that Microsoft
> included in your copy of Windows 2000, NT, or XP.
>
> I have received this message many times and would like to
> know if it is true. And if so, how does one get rid of
> this built in feature that allows this unwanted,
> unsolicited spam?
>