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re: Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 5:40 am Posted by triplate (20746 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! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 8:31 am Posted by Matt (2 messages posted) ive recently started geting some new pop ups the same way i did before i disabled the messenger service in services.msg. even though i have the messenger service disabled. is anyone else having this problem? 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! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 11:00 am Posted by Ricer46 (22013 messages posted) Following that tip would not have prevented you from getting the blaster 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! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Wish I'd known about 'Stop Pop-Up Spam Messages' Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 12:17 pm Posted by Ricer46 (22013 messages posted) I'd recheck to make sure that it's still disabled. On Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 8:31 am, Matt wrote: >ive recently started geting some new pop ups the same way i did before i disabled >the messenger service in services.msg. even though i have the messenger service disabled. >is anyone else having this problem? > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum