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More info?)
From: "TheBestKeptOne" <TheBestKeptOne@discussions.microsoft.com>
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http://members.lycos.co.uk/thebestkeptone/pic2.bmp
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| that is a screenshot of what keeps popping up.
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| i have run adaware and it removed 32 critical ojects.
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| i ran spybot...it removed some too.
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| but this WONT GO AWAY!!!
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| please help!
If you think it is a virus, there are anti virus News Groups specifically for this type of
discussion.
microsoft.public.security.virus
alt.comp.virus
alt.comp.anti-virus
However, this is NOT a virus. The BMP shows a MS Messenger / NetBIOS Pop-Up that is used as
a kind of spam.
It means a few things....
You don't have a FireWall
Your MS Networking is exposed to the Internet
You don't have WinXP SP2 installed.
If you had WinXP SP2 installed it would have disabled the NT Messenger service and you would
not get these Pop-Ups.
If you have Broadband and used a Cable.DSL Router you woould not get thse Pop-Ups.
I *strongly* suggest installing WinXP SP2.
For now, I suggest manually disabling the NT Messenger service.
Execute; %windir%\system32\services.msc
Find "Messenger" and double-click on it.
Click on "Stop"
Then go to "Startup type" and change it to "Disabled" then click on "Apply" the click on
"Ok"
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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