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Re: virus or hacked?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A. Bradford)
Wed Aug 20 13:37:19 2003

From: "Paul A. Bradford" <paul.bradford@adelphia.com>
Reply-To: paul.bradford@adelphia.com
To: Chris Todd <ctodd@westernnews.com>
Cc: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <8F0DB37505A4D61192F100508B55E6821C8A39@WNIEX01>
Date: 20 Aug 2003 13:30:50 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


That would probably be the messenger service in Win2k.....  to stop it,
go to Settings -> control panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services. 
Find Messenger and disable it.

Thanks,
Paul

Or load the linux OS of choice  ;)


On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 12:32, Chris Todd wrote:
> Good morning:
> I was wondering if anyone has seen this message on a win2k server before and
> might be able to help me
> 
> Message from destroyer to you on 8/19/2003 11:24:53pm
> Make this your last pop-up ever Destroy all these pop-up for a fraction of
> the price of our competitors!!!
> go to www. messagdestroyer.net
> 
> This is all in a plain windows box(gray box with an ok button at the bottom
> and the X is the upper right corner)
> 
> Any help or insight would much appreciated!!
> 
> Thanks
> Chris Todd
> Computer Technician
> Western Newspapers, Inc.
> (928)775-2499
> 
> Resistance is Futile
-- 
Paul A Bradford
Senior Network Engineer
Adelphia Cable Communications
814-274-6663



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