Messenger Services ?

[shreyadr]

whenever i am connected to internet , every minutes messg. similar to this messages are popping up. i am really fed up with these. how to get rid of these messg. i am using firefox as my default browser, zonealarm as firewall, norton 2005 as antivirus.

recently i have upgraded my sytem to p4, win 2K. only after upgradation problem starts occuring.





first i thought that this could be a message from microsoft and hence i have visited the sites mentioned here, but they dose look like of Microsoft's. hence i dare not to donload anything from there.

[kalpik]

Start -> run. Type services.msc. Double click messenger service, startup typ -> disabled.

[gary4gar]

hey u just infected ur pc with a virus.use a antivirus(avast) nortan sucks & a firewall zone alarm.both soft are free and trust i am using it for more than a year

[kalpik]

@gary4gar: Its not a virus dude!

[QwertyManiac]

It is a spyware in fact. use a cleaner and tell the reports please. Coz the messenger service doesnt show all this stuff...

[shreyadr]

Originally Posted by kalpik

Start -> run. Type services.msc. Double click messenger service, startup typ -> disabled.

Thanx, i did, now let's see whether it helps or not. But is/was my system infected ? do i need regestry fix ? how to do that ? i don't want format anymore ?

[mohit sharma]

Originally Posted by kalpik

@gary4gar: Its not a virus dude!

definitely these are not voruses , they are the first step towards getting a large chunk of free viruses , lol !!!!!

[gary4gar]

o.k i agree that it is not a virus but it is a gateway to get one.it happens to me once when i used nortan.now with ZA its fine.

@sheryadr
its a spyware.u need a addware or spyware cleaner.try ad-aware or bit defender or spybot sceach & distroy

[shreyadr]

@sheryadr
its a spyware.u need a addware or spyware cleaner.try ad-aware or bit defender or spybot sceach & distroy

I have norton 2005( which has protection against adware as well as spywares ) installed , updated regularly and scanned too. still why the problem occures ?

anyway, the solution given by kalpik was perfect and i could get rid of those horrifying messages by every now & then.

anything else is required to do ? or whatever done was sufficient ?

[kalpik]

@everyone: No, its not virus, spyware, adware, poop! It was just the messenger service! And there is no way you can get infected through the messenger service.

@shreyadr: If im not wrong, you dont have Service Pack 2 Installed. Install it as soon as possible, and install a good firewall. Also run a full system scan just in-case

[dIgItaL_BrAt]

ya,that's just messenger spam.