On 15 Dec 2003, at 15:27, <john at johnallsopp.co.uk> wrote: > My mum (can you tell I've been doing my Christmas rounds?) has got > those > popup messages that seem to be plaguing people nowadays. I don't even > know > what they're called .. they are messages exploiting an open port in > Windows XP. http://www.itc.virginia.edu/desktop/docs/messagepopup/ > Does anyone have a fix for the problem or a favourite dead simple > firewall > with a foolproof installation that I can point her at? Well - SUSE is supposed to be pretty easy to get to grips with... http://www.suse.com/ -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/