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Hello Clive,
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/internet/10/21/pop.upspam.ap/index.html
It's a new form of spam. You can set the "Messenger" service to manual in
the services (Settings | Control Panel | Administrative Tools |
Services) to disable, if you already have a diploma....
Best regards,
Roy mailto:tozar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 7:18:35 PM, you wrote:
C> Would welcome some insight on this.
C> Am running Win2K SP2, Zone Alarm (Not Pro, with security all set to high)
C> and IE 5.5 SP1 and I am on cable mostly 24/7.
C> 10 days ago I got a pop message/dialogue box. In the top blue bar was the
C> words Messenger Service with a grey box below the first line being "Message
C> from WEBPOPUP" and the rest of the text purporting to obtain university
C> diplomas with a phone number. The bottom of the box had an OK button. I
C> believe this the box is a normal windows messenger service and the app
C> running this is csrss.exe which has obviously been activated somehow.
C> I did not press the OK button but instead closed down all programs and then
C> shut down the machine. On re starting I did an online virus scan at Symantec
C> and also ran the latest Adware lavasoft. Nothing was picked up (except a
C> couple of cookies). I then reinstalled a Drive Image of the C drive (which
C> consists basically of just the OS) that was made about 6 months ago and did
C> the same scans. To day I had a repeat message pop up but the phone number is
C> now different.
C> Where/how can I find out what is causing this and is it potentially
C> threatening and what more can I do to protect my machine?
C> Thanks
C> Clive
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