Have you ever gotten a pop-up from MSN Messenger?

[JonTheBaller]

I just got one, and I want to know how to prevent this. I uninstalled MSN Messenger a while back... could something I downloaded have reinstalled it? Please advise, thanks!

popup screenshot

By the way, I ran Ad-Aware, but it didn't help.

 

[Yomicron]

That is the windows messenger service, it has nothing to do with MSN messenger. You either need to use a firewall or disable the messenger sevice.

How to disable the windows messenger service

 

[JonTheBaller]

Thanks... what brought upon these messages in the first place? I recently got DSL and use a wireless router (D-Link 614+ if it matters), and enabled DMZ. Should I disable it?

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: johnnytightlips
Thanks... what brought upon these messages in the first place? I recently got DSL and use a wireless router (D-Link 614+ if it matters), and enabled DMZ. Should I disable it?

those messages come from port 135-139 and 445. If you run software firewall set that up. Or get behind DMZ and port forward the ports you need.

 

[Talon02]

Nope, i have Red Hat 🙂

 

[Skel]

I use messenger all the time, and I've never seen that before...wierd


Skel

 

[Slugbait]

I use messenger all the time, and I've never seen that before...wierd

That's because a) the very old Messenger Service in NT has no relationship whatsoever to the much newer instant messaging clients, and b) the spammers simply haven't targeted your IP address yet.

Now that just about every machine sold has NT pre-installed, spammers have resorted to using NetSend to interrupt your computing experience.

 

[VTBigBear]

yep

nothing to do with MSN Messenger..


I used to know how to do that..
ah well.. no need to know that nowadays..