Digirunt Posted July 29, 2003 Posted July 29, 2003 Recently I've been having messages appear on my desktop about every half hour? See them here Mad!!! I've not got any web pages open and if I leave my computer for a while I come back to loads of them. All I have running is; Abyss server Yahoo msngr Sound fusion CPL It's a real pain and if anyone knows how to stop them please let me know. Quote
TCH-JimE Posted July 29, 2003 Posted July 29, 2003 Hi, I have already answered the question in the original place you asked it: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...opic=3407&st=15 Basically you got spyware on your computer! Jim Quote
Digirunt Posted July 29, 2003 Author Posted July 29, 2003 Something strange is going on here, I thought I posted it but when I went to where I posted It wasn't there so I figured prehaps you guys removed it cos it was in the wrong place? but now it's back??? Anyway thanks I'll investigate. I figured I'd check if windows firewall was on and discovered a message saying; The Windows management instumentation [WMI]information might be corrupted. To correct this use system restore to restore windows to an earlier time [called a restore point.] Fair enough if there was an earlier time but I had to reformat my computer yesterday and re install windows cos it went haywire and wouldn't boot. . . Don't we love microsoft windows I'm going crazy there's alsorts of wierd junk going on Thanks I'll get back to ya. Quote
Digirunt Posted July 29, 2003 Author Posted July 29, 2003 OK I downloaded Adaware and it detected 6 possible threats all of which are now gone. Two of them where assosiated with bitbeamer Bitbeamer post and the rest were browser hi jackers. I'm still trying to find out about the WMI thing tho. Quote
TCH-JimE Posted July 29, 2003 Posted July 29, 2003 Hi, I suggest you rebuild it again then, but a firewall will not stop the messages you are getting Jim Quote
cmuskett Posted July 29, 2003 Posted July 29, 2003 Try downloading SpyBot Search and Destroy you may find more that Adaware didn't find. Quote
matman Posted July 30, 2003 Posted July 30, 2003 This looks not like a spyware problem, but the Windows Messenger service. This service is used in local networks to allow the sysadmin (me) to pop a message up on a user's desktop to let them know of things. I also use to receive alerts from my servers when I have problems or when batch jobs are completed. Last year, people started bombarding the world with these things via the internet. It is not hard to stop, though: 1) If you have a broadband connection, get a firewall/router device. They're $100 or less these days and worth it. Linksys is a good brand. 2) If not, you can disable the service. Quote
leezard Posted July 30, 2003 Posted July 30, 2003 (edited) matman is right, thats someone exploitong the built in messenger, disabling it is easy enuff just follow that link ^^^ Edited July 30, 2003 by leezard Quote
Digirunt Posted July 30, 2003 Author Posted July 30, 2003 Or you could just pay the people sending the messages $30 for there software to protect your pc. LOL. They don't actually claim the messages are harmful cos they're not, just annoying so their sales pitch is "They could build up on your desktop and crash it and you'd lose your work" oOoh scarry. so popuppadlock gets the Thanks guys, service stopped messages gone. Thumbs Up Quote
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