Network POP ups

[Wobbler]

Every time I connect to my internet server I receive pop
up notifications windows advising, quote, "You [or a
programme] have requested information from eg dos.f-
key.biz. Which connection do you want to use? "
What's Happening and how do I stop it?

 

[Steve C. Ray]

www.lavasoftusa.com . Download Ad aware 6, its free.

 

[WOBBLER]

-----Original Message-----
www.lavasoftusa.com . Download Ad aware 6, its free.
DONT THINK ITS A VIRUS (I HAVE THREE BUG SCANNERS)Seems to be a xp system facility?
--
Steve C. Ray
Replace "mail" with "36db"

Every time I connect to my internet server I receive pop
up notifications windows advising, quote, "You [or a
programme] have requested information from eg dos.f-
key.biz. Which connection do you want to use? "
What's Happening and how do I stop it?

.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

Adware and spyware are not technically viruses and very few a/v packages
detect them at all. You need to use something like AdAware and/or Spybot
Search & Destroy to detect and eliminate them. I use both, as each can
sometimes catch things the other misses.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
www.lavasoftusa.com . Download Ad aware 6, its free.
DONT THINK ITS A VIRUS (I HAVE THREE BUG SCANNERS)Seems

to be a xp system facility?

--
Steve C. Ray
Replace "mail" with "36db"
message

Every time I connect to my internet server I receive

pop

up notifications windows advising, quote, "You [or a
programme] have requested information from eg dos.f-
key.biz. Which connection do you want to use? "
What's Happening and how do I stop it?

.

 

[Wobbler]

Thanks Steve,
I do have Adaware & Spy bot and together with Norton2004
I thoroughly purged my System and it has improved out of
sight.
The niggle I have is from pop up "dialogue boxes" via my
ISP (I think )
Regards Wobbler [Computer Illiterate]

-----Original Message-----
Adware and spyware are not technically viruses and very few a/v packages
detect them at all. You need to use something like AdAware and/or Spybot
Search & Destroy to detect and eliminate them. I use both, as each can
sometimes catch things the other misses.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
www.lavasoftusa.com . Download Ad aware 6, its free.
DONT THINK ITS A VIRUS (I HAVE THREE BUG SCANNERS)

Seems

to be a xp system facility?
in

message

Every time I connect to my internet server I receive
pop

up notifications windows advising, quote, "You [or a
programme] have requested information from eg dos.f-
key.biz. Which connection do you want to use? "
What's Happening and how do I stop it?


.

.

 

[Jim Macklin]

Are you running a firewall? If you run Zone Alarm it will
stop network Popups that are sent at random and also stop
(or at least ask you) when a bit of adware asks for another
popup ad.


message | Thanks Steve,
| I do have Adaware & Spy bot and together with Norton2004
| I thoroughly purged my System and it has improved out of
| sight.
| The niggle I have is from pop up "dialogue boxes" via my
| ISP (I think )
| Regards Wobbler [Computer Illiterate]
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Adware and spyware are not technically viruses and very
| few a/v packages
| >detect them at all. You need to use something like
| AdAware and/or Spybot
| >Search & Destroy to detect and eliminate them. I use
| both, as each can
| >sometimes catch things the other misses.
| >
| >Steve
| >
| >WOBBLER wrote:
| >
| >>>-----Original Message-----
| >>>www.lavasoftusa.com . Download Ad aware 6, its free.
| >>>DONT THINK ITS A VIRUS (I HAVE THREE BUG SCANNERS)
| Seems
| >>
| >> to be a xp system facility?
| >>
| >>>--
| >>>Steve C. Ray
| >>>Replace "mail" with "36db"
| in
| >>
| >> message
| >>
| >>>| >>>
| >>>>Every time I connect to my internet server I receive
| >>
| >> pop
| >>
| >>>>up notifications windows advising, quote, "You [or a
| >>>>programme] have requested information from eg dos.f-
| >>>>key.biz. Which connection do you want to use? "
| >>>>What's Happening and how do I stop it?
| >>>
| >>>
| >>>.
| >>>
| >
| >.
| >

 

[Wobbler]

I May be misleading you "When is a pop up not a pop
up?"These little offending messages appear to be
ligitimate internal Window dialogue boxes.
Regards >-----Original Message-----

 

[Guest]

My Brother in law is getting the same system popup asking him to connect to dos.f-key.biz. Has anyone found a solution for this? Thanks!

 

[purplehaz]

If they say messenger service in the title bar, these pop ups have nothing
to do with MSN messenger or Windows messenger. What this is a new way for
spammers to attack your computer and send you pop-up ads. If you receive
these ads it means that your computers netbios ports are wide open to the
internet and this could be a real security problem. What you should do is
install a good firewall that will block the ports the spammers use and stop
the ads. A good place to start is Zone Alarm ( www.zonelabs.com ) for an
inbound/outbound blocking firewall or use the inbound blocking only firewall
built in to XP. If needed configure the firewall to block ports 135, 137-139
and 445. Zone Alarm will block these ports by default.

Use this site to test some of your ports security:
https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

You can/should also disable the messenger service, which is the service the
spammers exploit, but it isn't needed to stop the ads and disabling the
service will not block the open netbios ports.

Note: If the Messenger service is stopped, messages from the Alerter
service (notifications from your antivirus software, for example) are
not transmitted. If the Messenger service is turned off, any services
that explicitly depend on the Messenger service do not start, and an
error message is logged in the System event log. For this reason,
Microsoft recommends that you install a firewall and configure it to
block NetBIOS and RPC traffic instead of turning off the Messenger
service. To turn off the service goto, control panel, administrative tools,
services, find messenger, right click, properties, hit the stop button, set
startup type to manual or disabled. (be sure to stay patched at windows
update as well)

If the pop-ups appear while surfing web pages then download and install one
of the many pop-up blocker programs. Search www.download.com for popup
blocker, you'll find many free ones.

Also get a good spyware cleaner:

Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/

Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.com

My Brother in law is getting the same system popup asking him to connect

to dos.f-key.biz. Has anyone found a solution for this? Thanks!

 

[Guest]

I've tried the ad aware and spybot, both have removed information, but this error still pops up.

Here's a screen shot of the error http://www.derimanoczy.com/connect.jp

I believe this is exactly what Wobbler was going through. Any resolvement would be great

Thanks!!

 

[Guest]

I've tried the ad aware and spybot, both have removed information, but this error still pops up.

Here's a screen shot of the error http://www.derimanoczy.com/connect.jp

I believe this is exactly what Wobbler was going through. Any resolvement would be great

Thanks!