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Old 01 August 2005, 05:08 PM
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Default popup? spam or legit

just logged on as normal and had two messages pop up on screen..

just header boxes staing from system to administratior..



"warning i have 47 critical registry alerts, and need to fix my registry immidiatly..

log on to www.ms. xxxx for software to fix..

gonna do a spyware scan,... somthing was asking for access to system32 services when i logged on.. hmm

is it legit or is it a new varient of spam-popups...

i have noticed one or two creeping in although firefox normally does a good job..

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Old 01 August 2005, 07:03 PM
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Old 01 August 2005, 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by JayPSC
Spam

agreed ,,, but cant seem to kill the little F*cker

cant find my copy of regclean, which was an automated regchecker and cleaner..

thinks it may be a bit of a trojan...

zone alarm asks for it to connect to the web... say no and all web pages are blocked say yes and its fine but bloody pop ups..

arghh

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Not only is it spam, but if you follow the link you will almost certainly pick up spyware, not get rid of it. Use Ad-Aware and Spybot, ignore any online offers to remove spyware etc.


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Old 01 August 2005, 08:09 PM
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Don't forget to disable the messenger service in control panel/admin tools/services as it sounds like it's a messenger message that's popping up..
Old 01 August 2005, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by what would scooby do
Don't forget to disable the messenger service in control panel/admin tools/services as it sounds like it's a messenger message that's popping up..
many thanks...

when i mentioned it to the other half...

oh i saw them last night,, derrrrr why didnt you tell me???

bloody messanger exploits.... are there any other exploits im vunerable to??

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