Can someone rid me of this annoyance? 2

[Nohjekim]

I am being inundated by a new and really obnoxious type of pop up message.

You may have them yourself. They pretend to be instant messaging and they purport to be from a variety of sources. Some of them are pushing stocks, and mutual funds, some say they are from Lisa who is pushing something else.

Does anyone know how I can disable these things? They come up even if I don’t have a browser open.

I am an occasional online gamer and having these things pop up; minimizing Asheron’s Call 2 is literally a matter of life and death.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Nohj

 

[linney]

To disable the ability for anyone in the world to send netbios messages to your computer, you can disable the Messenger service. Its easy to reverse if you wish to later.

Right click My Computer Icon
Select Manage
Select Services and Applications
Click Services
Scroll down and highlight "Messenger"
Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.
Click the STOP button.
Select Disable or Manual in the Startup Type scroll bar
Click OK

http://www.directadvertiser.com

 

[Nohjekim]

Thanks I'll do it right now!

Nohj

 

[Jontmke]

These are from some adware that installed itself on your PC. Run "Spybot" and get rid of all that crap. It is the worst kind of invasion.
JON

 

[Nohjekim]

Thanks I'll check that out too.

Nohj

 

[Comtech]

FYI, Windows messaging popups have NOTHING to do with spyware installed on your computer. It's simply a case of a website getting your IP from a previous visit. Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[smah]

Any decent firewall will also block 'Messenger Service' pop-ups. The ports that are open to allow this to happen should be blocked anyway.

 

[Nohjekim]

I did both of the things mentioned above.

I don't know which did it but they have not showed up since.

Nohj

 

[bickfordc]

Did you ever have a message on you computer that the atomic clock has been downloaded to you computer along with a calender from gain software. They are a though nut to crack which will give you headaches. Check under add/remove programs and make sure you have no software that you did not install. Also, make sure you do not have anything on your computer from GAIN or Gator Advertising...Hope it helps..

 

[Nohjekim]

Thanks

I had the Gator problem at another time, finally got rid of it.

Everything seems to be working now, I haven't seen a pop up in two days.

Nohj

 

[Liz195575]

Hehe I love you! I personally had this problem and can't even count how many have asked me how to fix this. Personally, i bought zone alarm pro as I had no clue! I have spent countless hours and have never found the answer. How could I not have guessed! Thanks so much!

 

[stevenriz]

Does anyone have any idea what port these messages come through?

 

[linney]

stevenriz,

At a guess I'd say Port 139. Check the following site for information and also a free firewall ports check (doing the check brings up the information about ports).

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

 

[davidarndt]

It's UDP Port 135