I keep getting this popup thing tellin' me I MUST go to some
faggoty-ass website and download the latest handy-dandy software
that's gonna end all my problems and keep the evil hackers outta by
shorts. Can someone give me a clue?

Thanx!
--

"The Borg assimilated my race, and all I got was this crummy tagline."

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:12:31 -0400, "Lick my Decals off, Baby! uh Clem..."
<SANITARY_PEDESTAL_clause39@yahoo.com_CHEESE_LOG > wrote:

Disable/Enable/Remove Windows Messenger in XP
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_mess_disable.htm

"Shoot The Messenger" utility for Windows NT/2000/XP
http://grc.com/stm/ShootTheMessenger.htm

Windows Messenger Spam Elimination Freeware
http://grc.com/stm/shootthemessenger.htm
http://grc.com/miscfiles/ShootTheMessenger.exe

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The messenger service is not the problem. The real problem is the fact that you are not running
a firewall, or if you are, you haven't blocked ports 137-139.

Disabling the messenger service will stop the popups, but if you have file and print sharing
bound to your external TCP/IP connection, then you could also potentially be sharing your
entire hard disk with the world since netBIOS uses ports 137-139.

Hi - If you get popups even when your browser is not connected to the
Internet with a title bar reading "Messenger Service", then these are most
likely due to open NetBios TCP ports 135, 139 and 445 and UDP ports 135,
137-138 and a UDP port in the range of 1026-1029. You really need to block
these with a firewall as a general protection measure. In addition you
should be sure that TCP ports 598 and 4444 and UDP port 69 are blocked. You
can stop the popups by turning off Messenger Service; however, this still
leaves you vulnerable. If you have an NT-based OS such as XP or Win2k, you
should probably also specifically block TCP 593, 4444 and UDP 69, 139, 445,
and install the very important 824146 and 823980 patches from MS03-026 and
MS03-039, here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=824146 to
block the Blaster worm as well as several other parasites. There is a tool
available here to check for these patches:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;827363


See: Messenger Service Window That Contains an Internet Advertisement
Appears http://support.microsoft.com/?id=330904 which identifies reasons to
keep this service and steps to take if you do.

You can test your system and follow the 'Prevention' link to get additional
information here:
http://www.mynetwatchman.com/winpopuptester.asp Unless you have very good
reasons to keep this active, it should be turned off in Win2k and XP. Go
here and do what it says:
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/ or, even better, get
MessageSubtract, free, here, which will give you flexible control of the
service and viewing of these messages:
http://www.intermute.com/messagesubtract/help.html Recommended.

(FWIW, ZoneAlarm's default Internet Zone firewall configuration blocks the
necessary ports to prevent this use of Messenger Service. I don't know the
situation with regard to other firewalls.)

Messenger Service is not per se Spyware or something that MS did wrong - It
provides a messaging capability which is useful for local intranets and is
also sometimes (albeit nowadays infrequently) used by some applications to
provide popup messages to users. However, it can also be (and now frequently
is) used to introduce spam via this open NetBIOS channel. For a single user
home computer, it normally isn't needed and can be turned off which will
eliminate the spam popups. This DOESN'T, however, remove the vulnerability
of having these ports open, when in fact they aren't needed, since they can
be perverted in other ways as well, some of which can be much more damaging
than just a spam popup.


--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

"Lick my Decals off, Baby! uh Clem"
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Lick my Decals off, Baby! uh Clem... wrote:
http://www.bootdisk.com/xptop20.htm#3

Jim Byrd wrote:
If I'm not mistaken many software firewalls, eg zonealarm, block them by
default.



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http://www.bootdisk.com/

Lick my Decals off, Baby! uh Clem... bashed at the keyboard and came up with
this gem of wisdom in 24hoursupport.helpdesk:


Gawd, how old is this? And people are still having problems with it?

Install a firewall, they all stop it. I bet you aint got one installed have
you?

Welcome Blaster et aal

What trick, what device, what starting-hole on Wed, 26 Oct 2005
22:21:43 -0700, canst thou now find out, to hide "Jim Byrd"
<jrbyrd@spamlessadelphia.net> from this open and apparent shame?:

Thank you all.
When I get this dang box workin' right & go up on cable I bought a
Linksys cable/dsl router which I s'pose'll help alot.
I now have a SATA Maxtor 200 gig HD and some off-brand regular 20 gig
and the 20 wants to be the boss. So until I get the second Maxtor 200
gog to take the stupid 20's place I'll just shut off the messenger
service.

'Preciate yer help!

--

"The Borg assimilated my race, and all I got was this crummy tagline."

Hi Plato - Yes, as I said in my post, ZA does do so by default. I'm just
not sure about any of the others, since I don't use them and haven't wanted
to install them just to check, but I think you're probably correct.

--
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP/DTS/AH-VSOP
My Blog, Defending Your Machine, here:
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

"Plato" <|@|.|> wrote in message news:4360655e$0$190$bb4e3ad8@newscene.com

Jim Byrd wrote:
Sheesh yep I missed that, sorry dude.

Plato, <|@|.|>, the abandoned, hopeless death-token, and shopkeeper,
uttered:
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! You brain-dead cuntcrust. You snipped this:

"FWIW, ZoneAlarm's default Internet Zone firewall configuration blocks the
necessary ports"

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What trick, what device, what starting-hole on Thu, 27 Oct 2005
07:11:48 +0100, canst thou now find out, to hide Michael Thompson
<news@thompsonmike.co.uk> from this open and apparent shame?:

Ahem...I've been shall we say "away" for the past 5 and a half years,
a guest at one of Tennessee's fabulous vacation resorts located in the
beautiful mountains of Yee Haw, Butt-Hole, Nowheresville, hangin' with
the Rock Man and sometime having visits to the famed "Hole", pissing
away too many months of my precious life discussing the nuances of
Nascar and yucking it up with Booty-Bandits, Tree-Jumpers,
Paper-Hangers and other denizens of the underworld.

When I checked in (or out as it were) my hard drive was a HUGE 3 gig's
and my whatchacallit chip in my motherboard screamed along at 200
mhz...
I just ordered my second SATA 200 gig HD for this here box I made
'cause for around 80 bucks I can't *live* without it! And anyway I've
got a zillion old LP's to put on CD and need the room.

uh no.
I'm still on a dialup, 56K (which is worlds faster than the 28K I used
to have!)
But as soon as possible I'll get cable and then'll hook up my physical
firewall. Spent a bit of time pouring over PC mags whilst cellin' and
learned that Gate's firewall is really close to useless so why bother?
I got my CD's and stuff...I can always reload everything.
One thing I learned from all this is ain't nuthin' important 'cept
freedom & family. Everything else is just everything else.
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"The Borg assimilated my race, and all I got was this crummy tagline."

"Kadaitcha Man" <nospam@fuck-off-and-die.com> wrote in message
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lmfao

I like that one.