re: Help: getting rid of Pop ups!! Monday, September 29, 2003 at 5:29 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by bBb (4 messages posted) I currently have a firewall up, I have downloaded a temporary solution stopzilla (it is working for now) I need to find out how to remove all the access files that have been put on my computer to notify the popup... any ideas? thanks in advance. On Friday, September 26, 2003 at 6:34 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote: >Disabling the Messenger Service only removes the symptoms of the "illness." > >If your system is suffering from Messenger Service popups, the problem is open TCP >and UDP ports. The spammers use the open ports to reach the Messenger Service. > >The solution is a firewall to close the ports! > >If you don't understand the concept, try the port scan at Steve >Gibson's www.grc.com or the port scan at the Symantec >web site. Written in response to: re: Help: getting rid of Pop ups!! (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Friday, September 26, 2003 at 6:34 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Help: getting rid of Pop ups!! (bBb: Fri, Sep 26, 2003, 8:33 am) re: Help: getting rid of Pop ups!! (nick-h: Fri, Sep 26, 2003, 8:38 am) re: Help: getting rid of Pop ups!! (bBb: Fri, Sep 26, 2003, 10:25 am) re: Help: getting rid of Pop ups!! (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Fri, Sep 26, 2003, 6:34 pm) re: Help: getting rid of Pop ups!! (bBb: Mon, Sep 29, 2003, 5:29 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