Help! Deluged with Pop Ups

[katogj2003]

I returned home from a business trip yesterday. When I turned on my
computer and surfed the web, I found myself deluged with pop up windows
advertising this and that. Most seem to be coming from Bullseye Network
Office.

I have Earthlink's popup block and Google's popup blockers activated and
still, these popups keep appearing! I have Windows XP SP2 installed too.
What could be the problem?

Help!

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings,

You may want to scan you system for any spyware/malware that may have been installed.

You can use one of the following applications to scan/remove any of these:
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download,
http://spybot.eon.net.au/index.php?lang=en&page=download
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, Messenger can be used to send Spam, which is what you're
seeing. There's a free utility called "Shoot the Messenger" available for
download at http://www.grc.com/default.htm that allows you to quickly
disable/enable Messenger. Not a perfect solution, especially if you use
Messenger a lot, but it may help reduce the irritation when you don't need to
use it.

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Hi,

I'm sorry but this is incorrect. What you're referring to is the Messenger Service *not*
Windows Messenger or MSN Messenger.

They are completely and absolutely unrelated and unlikely that the "Messenger Service" is
being used "a lot" (or else you'd know what the popups were!).
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Messenger/MSN Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2004 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.

 

[Earl Caravelle II]

False.

 

[Sparrow]

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <[email protected]> ha scritto nel
messaggio
[cut]

Please, "quote".
Thank you.

 

[Guest]

Please ignore previous messages.
You haven't mention at all anything regarding messenger problems.
This is not what you are looking for.

Hi there,
Nasty present.....
Ad-aware and Spybot are quite good for this, but try Hijackthis.exe
Is a good software but u gotta know what you are deleting.
It's a shame that symantec or microsoft didn't come out with some fix for
this bugging problem.

The generic name for this problem is "Downloader.Lunii"
Check this out.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/downloader.lunii.html

Also try dleting those files:
The files I located resided in the WINNT\System32 directory
the files are:
exdl.exe, exdl0.exe, exdl1.exe, exul.exe,
exul1.exe.
These stupid files propogate like a virus and the arsewipes who make these
intrusive spyware should be shot!
wmiprvse.exe
mspmsps.exe
nvsvc32.exe
wdfmgr.exe
mdm.exe
lady.exe