In data de Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:24:11 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] a scris: I totally agree to this. The culprit port left open is 135 :) Windows Messenger "produces" only simple plain ASCII ads. If one gets colorful eye-candy ads, then he should consider using LavaSoft AdAware program, which scans for this kind of "toys" . There are many "advertising modules" installed by freeware or shareware applications which, at first glance, seem totaly unrelated to advertising. I came across Adaware a few days ago, totally by chance, used it on some computers both at work and at home and I was totally suprised to find Gator, Cydoor and other stuff like this on those machines. There were cookies,registry entries, DLL's and even EXE's on all of them. So, beware...
regards Cristian Burneci > You need to disable the "messenger service". Our friends at > mickeysoft nere nice enough to enable this "deamon" by default along > with a host of other useless gunk(services). This is not related to > MSN or "Windows Messenger" but more like the unix "talk". I think > they got one their"windoze uptadez" patches to close this hole after > all their poor suffering customers started getting hit by all that > tasty popping spam and screamed to high heaven. > > It's trivial to get rid of, just google for > > disable "messenger serice" > > or some such. You will get mucho hits. > > goodday, > __ > sodjiin
