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 Dec 10 2005, 04:04 PM
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I have been receiving those pop-ups very often and all what I do is close them but they reappear shortly afterwards.. The other one is winfix.com I have been using 3 spyware tools (pestpatrol, ad-aware SE and Spybot) and despite me cleaning and clearing, they are still coming back!!! System is XP and the AV is eTrust. Any ideas? Thank you! |
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Dec 10 2005, 04:20 PM
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Kill Windows Messenger - http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/messenger.htm
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Dec 10 2005, 09:02 PM
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Hi LLM,
For more info on this spam/scam you might want to look at this: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?p=623164 -------------------- You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers To stay secure is to stay updated. Calendar of Updates. |
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Dec 11 2005, 08:18 AM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 15-November 05 Member No.: 40,699 |
I have disable the messanges services, and of course, it has stopped.
Thanks for the advise, I haven't received any further alerts... Cheers, LLM |
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Dec 11 2005, 11:54 AM
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Just to make sure you are protected ongoing
Get all of these and/or verify you have the current versions SpywareBlaster 3.4 http://majorgeeks.com/download2859.html SpyBot V1.4 http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2471.html AdAware SE 1.06 http://www.majorgeeks.com/download506.html MS AntiSpy - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en (XP and W2K only) DownLoad them (they are free), install them, check each for their definition updates and then run AdAware, MS AntiSpy (W2k/XP) and Spybot, fixing anything they say. In SpywareBlaster - Always enable all protection after updates In SpyBot - After an update run immunize -------------------- "Nothing could be finer than to be in South Carolina ............"
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