windows messenger still allowing pop-ups

PLEASE HELP me get rid of these stupid messages that look
official saying that my computer is open for the world to
see. I have followed the instructions about checking the
box to protect my computer...
This DOES NOT WORK. Any suggestions would be helpful.
I actually would rather delete this program, since I have
no use for it.

Jason
Fri Aug 08 19:27:12 CDT 2003

* angie <angietheautiger@aol.com>:
> PLEASE HELP me get rid of these stupid messages that look
> official saying that my computer is open for the world to
> see. I have followed the instructions about checking the
> box to protect my computer...
> This DOES NOT WORK. Any suggestions would be helpful.
> I actually would rather delete this program, since I have
> no use for it.

Windows messenger or the messenger service? They're two different
beasts. Windows messenger popups, as far as I know the only way to stop
those is to uninstall windows messenger. As for the messenger service
ones have you installed a firewall and blocked the port the service
uses?

Jason

gregd
Fri Aug 08 21:41:14 CDT 2003

Go to system admin>services and disable windows
messenger. Very simple to do.
>-----Original Message-----
>PLEASE HELP me get rid of these stupid messages that
look
>official saying that my computer is open for the world
to
>see. I have followed the instructions about checking
the
>box to protect my computer...
>This DOES NOT WORK. Any suggestions would be helpful.
>I actually would rather delete this program, since I
have
>no use for it.
>.
>

Sandi
Sat Aug 09 00:13:29 CDT 2003

Here you go Angie; you need a FIREWALL:
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/Darnit.htm#netbios

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"angie" <angietheautiger@aol.com> wrote in message
news:042101c35e0c$1c9b3ca0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> PLEASE HELP me get rid of these stupid messages that look
> official saying that my computer is open for the world to
> see. I have followed the instructions about checking the
> box to protect my computer...
> This DOES NOT WORK. Any suggestions would be helpful.
> I actually would rather delete this program, since I have
> no use for it.

Robert
Sat Aug 09 07:38:58 CDT 2003

gregd wrote:
> Go to system admin>services and disable windows
> messenger. Very simple to do.

Except that:
1) Windows Messenger isn't represented there
2) The Messenger Service, which is there, is a bit of a red herring. The
messages that come through that are a symptom of a greater problem with your
computer's security and disabling the messenger service is at best curing
the symptoms while doing absolutely nothing to fix the actual problem.

Sandi
Tue Aug 12 07:58:05 CDT 2003

<scwired@msn.com> wrote in message
news:0ac201c360ac$7526e2f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...

> >You can easily get rid of the pop ups by shooting the
> messenger @ grc.com. Also, incase you do want to use it
> in the future, just uncheck all of your boxes @ the
> messengers options such as start @ windows startup etc.
> But go to grc.com and click the shields up when you see
> it, the scroll down until you find : shoot the messenger.
> I have never had a popup since then .

Phhht! You may never have had a pop-up but your computer is still wide open
to the net if you don't have a firewall; Shields Up on scans a limited
number of ports, the ports that spammers/scammers/hijackers/viruses can use
is in the tens of thousands; just look at RPC; one version uses 444, I'll
bet THAT's not checked by Shields Up.

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YoKenny
Tue Aug 12 10:06:58 CDT 2003

Sandi - Microsoft MVP wrote:
> <scwired@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:0ac201c360ac$7526e2f0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>
>>> You can easily get rid of the pop ups by shooting the
>> messenger @ grc.com. Also, incase you do want to use it
>> in the future, just uncheck all of your boxes @ the
>> messengers options such as start @ windows startup etc.
>> But go to grc.com and click the shields up when you see
>> it, the scroll down until you find : shoot the messenger.
>> I have never had a popup since then .
>
> Phhht! You may never have had a pop-up but your computer is still
> wide open to the net if you don't have a firewall; Shields Up on
> scans a limited number of ports, the ports that
> spammers/scammers/hijackers/viruses can use is in the tens of
> thousands; just look at RPC; one version uses 444, I'll bet THAT's
> not checked by Shields Up.

Have you been to the latest ShieldsUp!! page? It has been complely
revamped with a simple test, a common test and test the first 1056 ports.
It also has a customized port scan and comprehensive descriptions of port
usage. It is being hammerd right now as people test their security. :)
Also in the news.grc.com newsgroups there is significant discussion about
this latest attack. The discussion about raw sockets is also interesting.
newsgroup is grc.news.feedback topic RPC problem.