Pop-up spam on your desktop
Monday, October 21, 2002 by DavidK | Discussion: WinCustomize News
NEW YORK (AP) -- As if junk e-mail and pop-up ads weren't annoying enough on their own, now there's pop-up junk e-mail. A developer of bulk-mail software has figured out how to blast computers with pop-up spam over the Internet through a messaging function on many Windows operating systems.
The pop-up messages appear on recipients' computers in separate windows, similar to pop-up ads that appear when a user goes to a Web site.
But there's a difference: Anyone can send the messages, and there's no need for the user to have an Internet browser open.
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bakerstreet
Reply #22 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 8:43 AM
Reply #22 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 8:43 AM
ignorance? lmao, think of it as ICQ without any of those annoying 'security and privacy' things. This is a holdover from the concept of 'business OS' that MS is abandoning, and yet imposing the responsibilty for administrating on home users.
MS includes easily-abusable 'services' and then turns them on by default when 99% of all users will never know they are on. Ignorance, to me, is the assumption that everyone is behind a corporate firewall...
MS includes easily-abusable 'services' and then turns them on by default when 99% of all users will never know they are on. Ignorance, to me, is the assumption that everyone is behind a corporate firewall...
Agit0168
Reply #23 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 3:46 PM
Reply #23 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 3:46 PM
To kill the messenger service for Windows 2K do the following:
1. click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type services.msc
4. Hit the Enter key.
5. Scroll down to messenger Service.
6. Right Click and select Properties.
7. Set Startup Type to either Disabled or Manual
8. Click OK.
9. Close Services
This will stop them for both XP & 2K, this will affect the ability to do net sends to computers on your network.
How to do net send it in an NT environment and connected to a domain(or in a workgroup):
1. open a command prompt (start/run/ type cmd).
2. type: net send (userid wo brackets) message.
3. it will pop up a message box on the target machine, with the message and your computername or userid.
check out the net command if you have a network it contains alot of different sub utilities that are pretty cool, you can use it to map to network shares, add printers, etc....
1. click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type services.msc
4. Hit the Enter key.
5. Scroll down to messenger Service.
6. Right Click and select Properties.
7. Set Startup Type to either Disabled or Manual
8. Click OK.
9. Close Services
This will stop them for both XP & 2K, this will affect the ability to do net sends to computers on your network.
How to do net send it in an NT environment and connected to a domain(or in a workgroup):
1. open a command prompt (start/run/ type cmd).
2. type: net send (userid wo brackets) message.
3. it will pop up a message box on the target machine, with the message and your computername or userid.
check out the net command if you have a network it contains alot of different sub utilities that are pretty cool, you can use it to map to network shares, add printers, etc....
dagwinn
Reply #24 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 5:35 PM
Reply #24 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 5:35 PM
Tarkus, the French have gone after US companies that link to or sell Nazi products. It's illegal in their country and they've gone to court to force US companies to comply with the law.
KarlSATX
Reply #25 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:45 PM
Reply #25 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 7:45 PM
I too have been a victim of this form of harrassment. I had one of these pop-up's the other day. Quite disturbing if you ask me. I would love to shove a timebomb up their a*s and see how they react to that. I understand that companies have to advertise, but if you ask me, I would not buy from a company that
1) Trashes a similar product.
2) Spams your mailbox
3) Spams your pop-ups with the Messenger Service
1) Trashes a similar product.
2) Spams your mailbox
3) Spams your pop-ups with the Messenger Service
geekboy2000
Reply #26 Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:59 AM
Reply #26 Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:59 AM
Thanks Dagwud. The Yahoo/Nazi memorabilia thing is what I was referring to. And please, I am not condoning Nazi memorabilia. I'm just using it as an example of the kind of global trade that the French are trying to restrict . . in France.
craeonics
Reply #27 Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:48 AM
Reply #27 Thursday, October 24, 2002 10:48 AM
Link or sell to... French citizens over the Net. Not the rest of the globe.
paxx
Reply #28 Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:44 AM
Reply #28 Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:44 AM
The US have done the same. For the Olympics, NBC has broadcast exclusivity for the USA. But since there is no way to know if the people visiting a website are from the USA or not, no video footage of any Olympic event will be available on the Internet as long as NBC has exclusivity right or that someone comes up with a way to ensure that visitors are not Americans. No website anywhere in the World is allowed to broadcast Olympic events.
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Reply #21 Wednesday, October 23, 2002 12:53 AM