Undeleteable Virus

[Guest]

I keep getting several "Messenger Service" errors telling me to go to
"regfixit.com" or
"patchupdate.com" because my registery has several fatal errors - I have
checked my computer and it's fine, I've run AVG Free virus scanner and it
can't detect a virus. I've also checked with Spybot.
I'm running Windows Proffesional.
What's wrong?!

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Josh" <[email protected]>

| I keep getting several "Messenger Service" errors telling me to go to
| "regfixit.com" or
| "patchupdate.com" because my registery has several fatal errors - I have
| checked my computer and it's fine, I've run AVG Free virus scanner and it
| can't detect a virus. I've also checked with Spybot.
| I'm running Windows Proffesional.
| What's wrong?!

This is NOT a virus nor malware contrary to others that previously replied to you !

It is a plain and simple con job in a NetBIOS Pop-Up form !

To disable the Windows Messenger Service, you can open a Command Prompt and type the
following commands...

sc stop Messenger
sc config Messenger start= disabled

A Router such as the Linksys BEFSR41 will also block this at the WAN/LAN interface and such
messages won't be seen on a LAN PC.

It also means two things...

You do NOT have WinXP SP2 installed
Your PC has NetBNIOS over IP exposed to the Internet.

If you had installed WinXP SP2 it would have done two things. Disabled the NT Messenger
Service and enabled the WinXP FireWall.