WTF are those pop-ups I keep? [housecall] [popups]
Q: screenshot (http://users.stargate.net/ ~ mguyel / popup.JPG)
These things are about to appear once a day over the past two months. They seemed to start shortly after I RealPlayer, so I tried to delete but it is clear that they have not stopped. Ive checked everything I can think of. NAV and HouseCall do not find anything, nor Ad-Aware or any other spyware / adware cleaners.
WTF these pop-ups, and how do I find out where they come from?
Best Answer: There are no released MacOs X viruses. You do not have a virus. Odds are you have your pop up ad blocker turned off in Safari or Firefox. Just turn it back on.
There are three released MacOs X malwares. To get one of them, you have to agree to download it, agree to install it, and put your admin password in twice. One is a fake porn viewer, one is a fake poker game, one is a fake Mac anti-virus. If you have not downloaded any of those or installed them, you have no problems. Eventually you will need an anti-virus, but since there are 118,000 Windows viruses and only 3 Mac malwares, you don't at this time.
Re:I use active ports to keep an eye on my connections if I am watching for trojans or to find the ip of pop-ups.
You can download it at http://www.ntutility.com/freeware.html
Re:Originally posted by: guy
…and shutting off messanger service can have bad side effects, as you will no longer receve some error messages, as well as other system critical popups..
What kinds of error messages does it block? Anything important enough to run ZA to stop the popups?
Thanks.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
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did u even read the original post? specifically… the second to last sentence in the original post.
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Re:Yes Zone Alarm has ip logging.
and shutting off messanger service can have bad side effects, as you will no longer receve some error messages, as well as other system critical popups..
the messanger service was very poorly thought out By MS.. but Zone Alarm blocks it nicely..
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Just turn off the messanger service. You don't need zonealarm to get rid of the popups.I realize that, but I'd like to find out where these messages are originating from. I get between 2 and 5 of them a day (have a static IP), and I'd like to file abuse complaints w/ the senders' ISPs if at all possible.
guy, thanks for the port blocking suggestion. I would not have thought of that.
Re:I have a firewall router, and when I set up a DMZ for my File sharing box I started getting those too. I found out that is you block certain ports you can get rid of them as well.
ports 135-139 and 445 are the ones that are used, so don't spend money on a program to block them.
while on the subject, can the XP firewall close/setalth certain ports?
Re:Just turn off the messanger service. You don't need zonealarm to get rid of the popups.
Re:Thanks for the replies. I'm going to download and install zone alarm, but is there any way to track the IP that is sending the spam w/o using zone alarm? Does the messenging service log the IP that messages originate from?
Re:Disable 'Messenger' in Control Panel …. Admin Tools…. Services.
And it wasn't meant for spam.
Edit: Also in FAQ's (http://www.{$MySite}/guides/viewfaq.html?i=153) if I didn't tell you how to disable it correctly.
Re:Go to www.zonelabs.com (http://www.zonelabs.com) and download their latest version of ZoneAlarm. This is a no-cost program to a private user for the lite version, or you may purchase the full version for a very reasonable amount.;)
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