re: Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 5:40 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by triplate (20738 messages posted) All you needed was an active firewall....no pop-up stopper in the world is gonna stop a trojan/virus/worm. On Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 5:19 am, T. R. Tinker wrote: >One of these pop-ups infected my XP computer with the W32/blaster.worm while online >downloading the Security and Critical Updates from Microsoft before I had installed >antivirus software. > >Good tip, and thanks - even if I found it a day too late! > > Written in response to: Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (T. R. Tinker: Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 5:19 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (T. R. Tinker: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 5:19 am) re: Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (triplate: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 5:40 am) re: Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (Matt: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 8:31 am) re: Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (Ricer46: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 12:17 pm) re: Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' (Ricer46: Sun, Sep 7, 2003, 11:00 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum