sandoppe opened this issue on Jan 18, 2003 ยท 22 posts
sandoppe posted Sat, 18 January 2003 at 10:56 PM
Waddus you asked if I was getting the popups while on the web: The answer is no. I generally get them when my computer has been idle....overnight normally and if I decide to leave the computer on....which I usually do since getting XP and not having to "reboot" at the end of the day :) It never happened until I got DSL and have a constant connection. I've had a check done for spyware...there is none. A lot of people are reporting it at the Microsoft groups. It is increasing as spammers take advantage of the "messenger service". I'm sure those of you who work for a corporation and are connected to their network have received little popup message boxes containing notices if the server is going to be down, and so forth? Well...that's what these are....little message boxes that use the same message service that your server administrator uses to communicate with you over a corporate network. The only difference is that the people who send these "messages" have figured out how to exploit this message service and use it to spam you through your ISP address with little notices about crap you don't want. One of them even left their phone number! If anyone is interested, they are the University Degree Program at 713-867-7980. I called....it's an active phone! I left a message and told them....well I won't post what I told them :) I guess if you need a degree give them a call....tell them for me to keep off my (blank) computer! :)