MSN and the attack of the spamming whores

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Damini

Guest
I know, I know, MSN kill babies and eat souls, but I use Windows Messenger because all my friends do, and it makes reassuring blingey noises when I get new e-mail, but recently my windows messenger has been over run with junk mail sluts.

Hi, my names Jennifer, see me on my webcam!

I block them every single time, but they come back again and again and its making me murderous. I simply cant find a way to block them from messaging me, and there has to be a way. Doesn't there? Someone? Anyone?

I've been told that with a new update you can stop people from messaging you, but i updated and that never appeared, and shnarf and rage.
 
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MYstIC G

Guest
Tools -> Options -> Privacy

Remove "All other users" from your allow list.

Tada

(All help provided here is used at your own risk, yada yada yada)
 
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Damini

Guest
Thank you!

Thank you thank you thank you!


God, I have put up with that spamming shite for months, searched the msn pages for help on how to get rid of it and found nothing of relevence, and Meg the Wonder Dog comes to the rescue.

:)
 
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MYstIC G

Guest
I'm not a dog, I'm an evil pac man, just check the website.

It will have the following limitations though just before you get weepy when stuff don't work in the future.

Nobody you've not added can message you - i.e. if your friends are muppets that change there accounts every 5 minutes like some of mine, they will soon become very annoying friends.

You won't recieve any of those links I send you in my many thousands disguises to watch jenifers webcam broadcasts...... oh shite





(p.s. I still don't believe Trebz has a mother)
 
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old.Kez

Guest
There's a charming young whore called Kate, who insists on asking me to join her in some goddamn weirdness. I hope she'll no longer bother me, though unfortunately my email address is prone to random twats. Also, why is it so goddamn often that "some spastic can't be added to your block list" - Why the goddamn hell not?! Stupid arabs.

(goddamn!)
 
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MYstIC G

Guest
From memory I don't think you can block people who are offline that aren't on your contact list or some crap, they have to have been added then destroyed iirc
 
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Damini

Guest
GAH!

Kate says:

Hey there!

My name is Kate. I'm an horny 18 years old teen girl from Florida ... I just finished making my FREE porn site and would like to invite you to it

The address is: http://www.blahblahslaggywomenmessagingme.

Hope you like it

Kate


Meg! It doesn't work :(
 
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ECA

Guest
if you go to tools> options> privacy>

click the option that says

only allow people on my allow list can see my status and send me messages.
 
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old.I_Am_Glen

Guest
maaaakkke new email !!!!!!!!!!!!111

...

kek :p
 
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Recoil101

Guest
Oddly I dont seem to get these since I converted to Trillian , I used to get loads to ICQ and MSN.... :confused:

Maybe theres a setting in there or something...
 
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(Shovel)

Guest
I've never had any to MSN. PArtially - I expect - because it is set up so that everyone has to be auth'd to message me, and also cause I don't have a spam-magnet hotmail address as my passport sign-in.
 
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Damini

Guest
Ok, a new problem (my PC is filthy with all sorts of unwanted guests) - Morpheus pop ups, and little radars and horrors.

Quite frequently I get a big (and I'm talking big enough to nearly chew up a quarter of my monitor) pop-up just dive out of my task bar advertising morpheus. As soon as I visit a site like ebay in my task bar a little Morpheus shopping club status meter pops up (which looks like a green glowing satellite dish/radar) and suddenly I get linked back to the homepage of ebay when I click on a product, which makes me suspicious that this little icon is being deliberately evil and stopping me shopping, though it could just be coincedence. Having clicked on the icon, it says:

Do you wish to automatically collect cashback?

Yes No

How do you wish to be notified when earning cashback?

Notify me via a sliding message window Notify me via a flashing tray icon

EXAMPLES:

If you have chosen yes, this message window will slide onto your screen notifying you that cash back is being generated while you shop

If you have chosen no, his message window will slide onto your screen presenting you the option to earn cash back while you shop


(This is also called the If You Tick No We're Going To Harrass You Anyway option...)


I had Morpheus installed eons and eons ago, but I uninstalled it (or as best as I could) but it seems some nugget of evil may remain. I've adaware'd with the latest updates, I've nortoned, and this will not leave my PC alone.

Someone, kill it?
 
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nath

Guest
It sounds like something GAIN would do, but ad-aware zaps that quite easily.

What I'd do is have a look through the processes list in task man, and see if there's anything out of the ordinary. Try shutting things down and seeing if anything changes. Other than that, no idea :\
 
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stu

Guest
Originally posted by (Shovel)
...and also cause I don't have a spam-magnet hotmail address as my passport sign-in.
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That's the crux of it really. Create a new MS Passport using your "normal" (ie non-hotmail, non-spam magnet) account. Then copy over all your contacts, and send them a message saying you've changed. It'll take a few minutes, but you'll get zero spam messages after that.

Re: Morpheus. You've almost certainly got some other shite installed on there that does ad-sharing (like nath said, GAIN is a culprit, I think Gator do similar shite). If ad-aware doesn't pick it up though (and it's coming out of your taskbar??), it sounds pretty deeply embedded and trojan-like. I take it you're using 2K or XP? Do a clean reboot, then check your process list - kill anything that doesn't look friendly. If that doesn't work, take off and nuke the site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
 
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TedTheDog

Guest
You could always try the free trial of Pest Patrol. Dont forget to run the update thing once its installed (if you install it of course) before you scan.
 
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Damini

Guest
Ok, Pest Control didn't find it, though I must say I like the suitably dramatic noises it makes while scanning :) That did appeal to me. It found one gator thing, which has now been nuked, and this blighter still exists.

I'm running XP, and I'm afraid I'm not too sure how to check my process list, but yes it emerges from my task bar and nestles in my system tray, and it automatically spawns when I go to ebay.com (but not co.uk) and no doubt quite a few other sites.


Hateful.

I guess it's time for a proper spring clean.
 
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stu

Guest
CTRL-ALT-DEL

Task Manager

Processes

Definitely sounds like some ad-sharing thing if it's activating itself when you visit certain urls. Try using a different browser (Opera) and see if it happens.
 
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Damini

Guest
Heh, the latest development is my computer randomly making "BOIT!" noises, like Rolf Harris and his bit of cardboard are trapped inside.

Its a complete wipe out at the weekend for my PC.
 
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Johnny Bravo

Guest
Originally posted by Damini
Heh, the latest development is my computer randomly making "BOIT!" noises, like Rolf Harris and his bit of cardboard are trapped inside.

Its a complete wipe out at the weekend for my PC.
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So thats what happened to Rolf....thought we hadn't seen him for a while :D
 
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JohnyWishbone

Guest
LOL I thought it was just me.. I havent even been doing anything dodgy :( .. every time I come out of a game of CS theres like three windows open from these hooars.

Leave me alone ..
 
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WPKenny

Guest
I made sure she was using the latest version/updates to Adaware and I also ran Windows Washer and that's not fixed it. I killed some processes via task manager and that sill didn't stop it. I reset her windows sound back to the default scheme and that didn't fix it. It's really odd.

But then the XP she's using now was upgraded from a ME install....
 
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nath

Guest
Originally posted by WPKenny
But then the XP she's using now was upgraded from a ME install....
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Gahgh. As stu said, take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure :|
 
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WPKenny

Guest
Originally posted by stu
Aye. And while you're at it, switch to 2K.
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2k is like a volvo. It maybe well built and safe but it's certainly not very sexy. It's just boxy.
 
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