[thelist] what is this scam?

[Chris Blessing]

Tom-

IIRC it looks like someone's using the command-line tool "net send" to send
your computer a message (or a program is doing it).  You should get firewall
software to protect against things like this.  ZoneAlarm comes with my
personal recommendation.  Good luck!

BTW the other possibilities are that you have some active x control running
through IE, or you have some application running on startup that pops a
dialog box up at random intervals.  Try out the firewall software and see
what happens.

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

> Hi all,
>
> I've had this happen on my computer a number of times now and it
> really bothers me. I get this popup window:
>
> http://www.pixelmech.com/test/scam.gif
>
> It pops up at random times that I can remember, not when I am doing
> any one specific thing. I'm very careful about what I download and
> such, its not something that I did conciously.
>
> I used to have Gator but I wiped it, and even used AdAware to clean
> my system. How can someone fire up something like this on my PC?
> (This wouldn't happen on an apple..mutter).
>
> Stuff like this makes me want to kick Bill Gates in the head. I am
> connected via cable modem and I am not using any firewall software,
> but I am not convinced that would help...
>
> anyone?
>
> Tom
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