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[zevele10]

After one day with W2k ,not having yet firewall and anti virus i got few pop up windows :

Messenger
from xxxx: virus xxx detected
I did not have any messenger installed
From was from people with an israeli surname :shara -Eli and Aviv

After the third pop up i did install an antivirus and it found the virus annonced in the messages.

I had smoked only real cigarettes and drunk  only some  english tea from F&M

[phelt]

If you have Win2K you have a Messenger service, intended for network administrators to send unavoidable popup notices to users. Like so many things, the Messenger service is exploitable. Some "people" even found a way to spam all the users of remote networks with it

Probably this is a 'signature' for the virus authors, like digital grafitti. Good that you got it scrubbed.

If you're not on a network you can probably safely disable the Messenger service. That's one of my first steps on a new Win2K system, along with many other 'services'.

Obviously, making modifications to services and/or the system registry can have seriously negative consequences... like it won't work anymore  

[zevele10]

Thank you
i was sure that the one sending the messages was the one sending the virus.
well it was not really a virus ,more kind of trojan or something like it.
I now have to learn W2K.
But i like it-beside it having reformated up to 5 or 6 times a day when trying to master 98 or ME ,i start to understand ...what i understand and what i do not.

For a start my new cable connection is running faster than the speed they announce,so no need to mess around with it..