Messenger Service driving me MAD. PLease help

[mikesed]

All,

I am using BT Broadband. Nice service todate.

However for the last few days I keep getting some damn idiot sending me a pop up thru Messenger Service.

It's basically an advert for a porn site and it keeps cutting into whatever I am doing. It's obviously automated.

I have switched of yahoo messenger. I have Kerio firewall in place. Pop up killers as wel - but still it appears.

Anyone know what service I need to kill to get rid of Messenger Service please?

Thanks,

Mike

[reynolds]

re

It might by spyware. Download AdAware and see if that gets rid of it.

[mikesed]

Re: re

Thanks, but I already tried that.

I wish I could just get my hands around the throat of the people doing this. That would stop it!

[AtW]

its spam, not spyware, not sure anyone apart from MSFT can help with it.

[mikesed]

MSFT?

[datestamp]

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.

[CrapSpotter]

> 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.

[mikesed]

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

[McBainCo]

Would you have KaZaa installed by any chance?

[CrapSpotter]

> 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.