Re: New MSN Messenger Exploit?
From: Dave (c@t)
Date: 03/04/03
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From: "Dave" <c@t> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:20:12 -0500
Hey Jupiter,
I appreciate all the links, but this is not messenger service, which has
been disabled along with all the networking features. This is windows
messenger. I run Ad Aware, Spybot, Norton corporate firewall, Norton
corporate AV, browser hijacker blaster, BHO Demon, Ad Shield and more. When
someone adds you to their messenger list, it usually prompts you to accept
or block and then when someone on your list tries to initiate a
conversation, the dialog box doesnt maximize on its own, you have to click
it above the tray or maximize from the taskbar. This person spammed me
yesterday, so i changed my passport account and deleted my old passport thru
"control userpasswords2". Well today, the same person with the same message
popped up again? no prompting, the conversation box just opened right up. I
have tried 4 trojan programs, online scans from trend micro and who knows
what else. I am now gonna phone my ISP and see if they can give me a new IP,
maybe that will help. If you have any thoughts, please let me know, this is
really bugging me.
Thanks a bunch.
"Jupiter Jones" <jones_jupiter@hotnomail.com> wrote in message
news:e$zzw8e4CHA.1680@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Dave;
> If they are Messenger Service ads, that is different from MSN
> Messenger.
> For Messenger Service ads:
> You need to install or enable a firewall:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q330904&
> Disabling Messenger Service can be a good idea, but it does not solve
> the real problem.
> The ads are not the real problem, the ads are only a symptom.
> The real problem is open ports that allow unwanted traffic into the
> computer.
> Disabling Messenger does nothing for the open ports.
> The firewall controls the traffic.
> This will not work if you have AOL.
> AOL is not compatible with Windows XP Internet Connection Firewall
> (ICF)
>
> Disable Messenger Service:
> Start/Control Panel, click Administrative Tools, click Services.
> Go down to "Messenger".
> Right click "Messenger" and select Properties.
> Then under Start-up select DISABLE
> Click OK and follow prompts
>
> Ad-Aware may be appropriate (free version):
> http://www.lavasoft.de/
>
> For internet pop-ups:
> http://www.panicware.com/
> http://www.bysoft.se/sureshot/stopthepop/index.html
> http://www.popupbuster.com/PopUpBuster/
> http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/
> http://www.endpopups.com/
> http://www.adshield.org/
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones
> An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
> Please respond to newsgroup only for everyone's benefit.
>
>
> "Dave" <c@t> wrote in message
> news:uaqatue4CHA.1932@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Hello,
> > I got spammed on Windows messenger yesterday, this person was not on
> my
> > contact list and I was not asked to accept them. All of a sudden the
> box
> > popped up on my screen. Normally when a friend contacts me, i have
> to click
> > on the box above the tray to open it. Well this new just popped
> right up? So
> > I changed my Passport account and today, with my new Passport, I got
> spammed
> > by the same person or at least it was the same address. I deleted
> the info
> > from my old passport thru "control userpasswords2" and they still
> got thru
> > without prompting me to add them or even without opening the dialog
> box?
> > Whats going on? I am not confusing this with the other messenger
> exploit,
> > this IS windows messenger????
> >
> >
>
>
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