Messenger popup spam?

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2003-11-18 08:10am

Okay is this Weird Week or something? I'm not even logged in to MSN messenger but a message from it poped up saying: "Did you know that most women are unhappy with the size of their partners penis" and so on. Normal spam in other words.

Last time I had messenger installed, something like this never happened. And the scan for spyware came up negative as well.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-11-18 08:41am

That's not MSN messenger but an old crummy service called ms messenger.

Witch windows do you use? if it's w2k or xp just start the services manager. Start->Run->Services.msc and scroll down to the messenger service.

R-Click on it and chose stop and then change it from automatic to manual.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2003-11-18 11:46am

Run a firewall.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2003-11-19 11:07am

Faram wrote:That's not MSN messenger but an old crummy service called ms messenger.

Witch windows do you use? if it's w2k or xp just start the services manager. Start->Run->Services.msc and scroll down to the messenger service.

R-Click on it and chose stop and then change it from automatic to manual.

Done. Have to wait and see if it helps.

Sharp-kun wrote:Run a firewall.

I am.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2003-11-19 12:27pm

Dooey Jo wrote:
I am.

Odd. All my experience and from what I'vve learned from friends is that that should stop them.

Coaan · Post by **Coaan** » 2003-11-19 12:49pm

Sharp-kun wrote:
Dooey Jo wrote:
I am.
Odd. All my experience and from what I'vve learned from friends is that that should stop them.

Normal popups yes...but when they go through windows messenger...they effectivly have a 'back door' through the firewall...because messenger..in it's absolute annoying state will automaticly look at your firewall and insist a port be opened for it...or it just uses the one already left open

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2003-11-19 01:06pm

Coaan wrote:
Sharp-kun wrote:
Dooey Jo wrote:
I am.
Odd. All my experience and from what I'vve learned from friends is that that should stop them.
Normal popups yes...but when they go through windows messenger...they effectivly have a 'back door' through the firewall...because messenger..in it's absolute annoying state will automaticly look at your firewall and insist a port be opened for it...or it just uses the one already left open

Nope, I only get messenger popups when I disable my firewall, so for me at least its blocking them.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-11-19 03:56pm

Faram wrote:That's not MSN messenger but an old crummy service called ms messenger.

Witch windows do you use? if it's w2k or xp just start the services manager. Start->Run->Services.msc and scroll down to the messenger service.

R-Click on it and chose stop and then change it from automatic to manual.

I set mine to 'Disabled'.

Plus I have Kerio Firewall which apparently is quite effective at blocking the shit.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2003-11-19 04:40pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:I set mine to 'Disabled'. Plus I have Kerio Firewall which apparently is quite effective at blocking the shit.

Disabled is nice.

Kerio don't block it if you don't have a rule, but all tcp 135-139 deny deny is quite effective

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-11-20 08:47pm