Reply to: Messenger Service driving me MAD. PLease help

Re: Leave it to the MS expert

Aye Xog, I'm a devotee of the www.sysinternals.com stuff. NTfilemon rocks, saved my butt a few times.

Re: Leave it to the MS expert

or you could change to a java messenger...

www.dmsn.nl

Milan.

Re: Leave it to the MS expert

One thing I have found useful in past is filemon, a freeware file activity monitor you should be able to download from net.

Just opening one app gives you an enormous log file but with patience you should be able to track down offending file.

Re: Leave it to the MS expert

Sorry CS,

I owe you too!

CS, I think I recognise your style!

M$ expert

of course that wouldnt happen on unix ....


Mike

If you are on broadband, bin the usb adsl modem and buy a router as suggested.

I just bought the netgear dg834g router for my father in law. £83 + £10 delivery + vat from pcworld. has firewall, 802.11g .wireless, adsl modem supports vpn, etc.

kerio isnt as easy to set up as zonealarm, im only on isdn but I use an old router with nat and set to deny ALL incoming connections.

Re: Leave it to the MS expert

> Thanks. I owe you!

Yellow card. Same link I posted the day before so you owe me not DP.

Re: Leave it to the MS expert

DP,

Thanks. I owe you!

Leave it to the MS expert

Do this:

www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/

Simple. Stopped in 30 seconds. No need to pay me. :hat

It might be spim

see CUK news article

If it is you might need to reset your acceptance settings.

> Ran antivirus last night - no viruses.

Strictly speaking some of the nasties are not viruses (virii ?) and not every scanner will report them as such.

When I cleaned up a PC which had been used by a teenage boy a short time ago it was infested with 8 dialers/viruses from porn sites producing constant popup messages - slowed the machine to a crawl (and made my eyes pop a bit too). AVG from www.grisoft.com found and removed at least some of them but I had to hunt around to find what was running from startup and then make shure it wasn't legit.

Would you have KaZaa installed by any chance?

Thanks.

Ran antivirus last night - no viruses.

I suspect it is something to do with Kerio config. Will try reading the help files.

Also will check out the site you suggest.

Cheers
Mike

> Have you tried avoiding popups with Firefox?

Not reading the question properly. Yellow card.
Alternately not understanding the question and still posting. Red card.

Best solution - buy a router - they all should have firewalls these days to block unsolicited crud but check anyway.

Cheapskate solution - use ZoneAlarm or some other free software firewall - maybe your Kerio is not configured properly or doesn't work.

Techie solution - there are about 5,000 different site offering solutions to this ... www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/

Try running a virus scanner as well as AdAware to make sure you don't have something soliciting these though - if the firewall isn't blocking them then that is a distinct possibility imo. Taker a look at running processes - be especially suspicious of anything with a name like dialer - often installed by porn and warez sites.

Have you tried avoiding popups with Firefox?

Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded

Firefox is a free, open-source and cross-platform web browser for Windows, Linux, MacOS X and other operating systems. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows.

MSFT?