Jay, I do have a firewall. I learned really quick how to stop the problem. My original question was whether or not Redhat had a similar problem. I have learned that the problem is unique to "windoz".
I am new to Linux so I don't know all the ins and outs yet, in fact that's about all I know about Linux right now is how to get in and out, lol. I am giving serious thought to creating a "parallel office" with Linux while I learn about how to use it and what it does. I just might learn enough that I won't need to contribute to the M$ stockholders dividends. Of course, I have a bit of a learning curve to get past my windoz habits. Thanks Buck -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jay Crews Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Messenger Poppups Buck writes.... > > It is obvious from the replies that I am getting that the Linux crowd is > not familiar with the problem. This isn't a put-down, just the bliss of > not having to experience the problem. That's probably because this is a RedHat Linux mailing list. We know what M$ is. Some on this list even have M$ installed somewhere. I Have WinDoz95 on a partition, but have not booted it in a few years. Although I'll confess, I used my roomies WinXP to edit my resume a while back. Here's the thing. The popups are a warning. A warning that you should NOT have your machine exposed to the world like that. WinDoz machines are useless (compared to unix machines) as far as breaking in and doing damage to other systems. But if you have ANYTHING of value on you machine, you should NOT leave it exposed like that. Apearantly you do not have a router. That would be the simplist way to solve your problem. They are cheap. About $40 for what you need. Or as has been discussed on this list many times, why not get a second NIC and let your Linux box do the firewalling for you? -- Jay Crews [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A new form of spam has emerged through a service automatically installed > and enabled on Microsoft Windows products that allow spammers to > directly attack prospects by popping up dialog-box ads on their screen. > As you will see from the sites I listed below, it gets through anything! > No matter what you are doing on your computer, the ad pops up and stops > your work until you click OK to close the window. > > The statement about the Net Send command is close. Only this is spam > generated from software designed to deliver spam to millions of computer > users. > > Like I said, this isn't to be a negative toward those of you who haven't > experienced it. Maybe the urls below will help you see what I am > referring to. > > > Thanks for all the answers and advice. > > Buck > > http://www.broadcastadvertiser.com/index.htm > http://www.giantcompany.com/sic.aspx > http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002Oct/gee20021017016848.htm > http://iquebec.ifrance.com/oceansoft/zrppp.htm > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Jim Christiansen > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Messenger Popups > > I think what you have happening is that some sweet student is issuing, > from > the command prompt, the command: > > net send > > Students shouldn't have access to RUN, CMD, or the command prompt... > > Jim > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
