STOP those F***ing pop ups that use WIN2K Alerter Service!

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August 26th, 2003, 01:16 AM
breakology

STOP those F***ing pop ups that use WIN2K Alerter Service!

A friend asked me about pop-up's that use MS Messenger Alerter service today, So I thought I would share the answer with Antionline. I know it's a little cheesy to you 311T3 haxors out there, but I figured the newbies would dig it.
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THis is a quick tutorial on how to stop those annoying pop-up messages you get which use the Microsoft Messenger Alerter service in Windows 2000, with out using third party software.
(which is EXTREMELY ridiculous when you see how easy this is)

Method 1: Ok, really simple. you open a command prompt by clicking Start->Run and typing "cmd" in the text field. Now at the C:\> prompt type "net stop messenger"
and BANG! no more MS Messenger pop-ups. NOw, this of course is a temporary solution that you must repeat every time you re-boot. Well, is'nt there a more permanent solution ? Well, i'm glad you asked, cause yes there is!

Method 2: Like this, click Start->Programs->Administrative tools->Services Now, your services window should have popped up. Scroll down untill you find the service named "Messenger". Right click on the service, select properties, stop the service and change the value in the startup type field from Automatic to Manual. Or you can just select disable.

Ok, I hope someone out there found this helpful. As usual, submit all flames, complaints and negative criticism to my boss at [email protected]
August 26th, 2003, 01:21 AM
White_Eskimo

err...i feel really stupid saying this, but i cant find Administrative tools in start->all programs. lol could someone help me, like give me the icon or something :)
August 26th, 2003, 01:27 AM
DeadAddict

Click on start then settings then select control panel and there you go
August 26th, 2003, 01:27 AM
nihil

Thanks,

Very useful, as I have several WIN2k boxes.

Perhaps I should speak on behalf of the US Mail service..................snail it to "da boss" 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?..............just a thought :) ......................make sure you don't send it to 985 :D ........I think that is the one?...they are on he same road as I remember.......the FBI building?

Public holiday over here break. guess I have had too much beer :)

Thanks for the post
August 26th, 2003, 01:28 AM
breakology

oops, sorry.... but the good thing about windows is that there is always more than one way to get somewhere. Start->Settings->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Managment-> you will see Services & Applications at the bottom.

Or do it the quick way and right click "My Computer" and select Manage
August 26th, 2003, 01:28 AM
HTRegz

Quote:

Originally posted here by White_Eskimo
err...i feel really stupid saying this, but i cant find Administrative tools in start->all programs. lol could someone help me, like give me the icon or something :)

Hey Hey, this is because not everyone has Administrative Tools in their start menu. As well you are in XP and he mentioned his steps are for 2k. However this method also works in XP. You'll just have to go to Control panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services.
August 26th, 2003, 01:32 AM
White_Eskimo

yeah thanks i have XP :) I got it now...good tutorial thanks again everyone :)
August 26th, 2003, 01:33 AM
goozle

Follow these directions to place the Administrative Tools in your Start menu: (windows xp)

Right-click your Start menu and choose Properties.
Click the Customize button on the Start menu tab.
Click the Advanced tab and look for the text labeled "Start menu items."
In the Start menu items, scroll all the way to the bottom of the list and check the box next to the text labeled "Display on the All Programs and the Start menu" listing.
Click OK.
Click Apply.
August 26th, 2003, 01:42 AM
x acidreign x

a quicker way to get to mmc services is to right click "my computer" and select "manage"
August 26th, 2003, 02:11 AM
lex

thanks for the info, this helps me specially the quicker way to go the computer management..
August 26th, 2003, 03:20 AM
phishphreek

That is a basic way to get rid of the "net send" messages.

Another way would be to implement a firewall or use your router's built in firewall to block these at your gateway.

The ports you would want to block in this instance would be...

Quote:

The Messenger service uses UDP ports 135, 137, and 138; TCP ports 135, 139, and 445; and an ephemeral (that is, short-lived) port number greater than 1024.

Now for the really annoying popups... from web pages and the like.

Use a popup blocker or if you are using m$ IE, use the google.com toolbar (version 2 has a popup blocker included free of charge and tons of other useful functions.)

There are many other popup blockers out there. Some are free (that do the basics of stopping popups and popunders.)

Here is one I've tried and like

http://www.panicware.com/popupstoppercompare.html

I have been using the google.com toolbar lately though, and that is doing the job just fine.

For blocking ads within the webpages, I use the built in feature that Norton Internet Security has. It works great. I really don't like banner ads. If I want to buy something, I'll ask for some opinions or find out on my own what I should buy. Banner ads are really annoying to me.

If you don't want to go and purchase a banner ad blocker... you can trick it.

Find the address of the ad server. Normally, just right click on it and copy shortcut. Then paste it to notepad. Edit it to get just the server address....

example of a banner ad I just pulled off of cnn.com

http://ar.atwola.com/link/93103287/html?badsc=B0n8eALPilhfPeCLv2gP6pBaBG9eWa7QhYzlvI-D3rkGeEaql8MxOXT42JIJZdCkGbbq7VyjS2bWxW8y-z8I7nthPI41tcrRbTb0vfkioRYqzc_Y-YDr71tDcicMIkrMxlzNWnRzORPjBssT3KDfhvNeoZ1rlpREaPXI-unb8jwHQL2z97NSpkuncH0c31zXlmBAic9fLALns$

pull out the junk and link it to localhost via your "hosts" file (9x it is located in %systemroot% NT or like... %systemroot$\system32\drivers\etc *nix, it is normally in /etc/ )

127.0.0.1 ar.atwola.com

open a command prompt and enter this(ntbased... for 9x, it would just be c:\%systemroot%), or edit it manually
echo 127.0.0.1 ar.atwola.com >> c:\%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS

Now anything that a site tries to pull from ar.atwola.com will pull from your local machine and when it can't find it... it'll show a blank page, or mini 404 error.

This can be a real pain... as there are tons of ad servers out there... but if you search for it you can find hosts files that people have already compiled. I know people have posted them here on AO already, so use one or two of those and start adding your own entries. You can combine other hosts files too...

Now... the flash ads are a bit more of a pain...

<center> <b class=ads>Advertisement[/b]

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://66.216.104.232:80/servlet/ajrotator/79/0/viewJScript?pool=52&type=42"></script> </center>

I pulled out the advertisement source from "TheOnion"'s website. Here we have to do a bit more... like find out exactly which server it is coming from. We see that it is 66.216.104.232 which wel'll assume that it is their adserver. Looking at their source, it looks like all their ads are on one server. Use samspade.org to find out more info about this server...

Viola.. we have the machines dns address...

manuel.theonion.com

now link it to your hosts file as a localhost ...

127.0.0.1 manuel.theonion.com

pull up a command prompt and enter... or just manually edit it... (only for ntbased...)

echo 127.0.0.1 manuel.theonion.com >> c:\%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS

No more flash ads from the onion... Meaning... faster page loads cause you don't have to DL those crappy flash ads.

There are plenty more little tricks... these are just a couple and some are a pain in the a$$ unless you really keep up with it.

I know this tutorial was just supposed to be to stop messanger based popups... but this info is also good.

Oh, keeping your spyware down will also help reduce your adcount/popup count....

Quote:

Originally posted here by phishphreek80
Another thing you may want to do is remove all spyware/adware.

adaware
spybot search and destroy
August 26th, 2003, 09:13 AM
Negative

Steve Gibson wrote a small tool called "Shoot the Messenger" to do it for those of you who are *really* lazy :)
August 26th, 2003, 03:25 PM
Noia

Haha.

You forgot to mention Proxomitron btw, one of the best Pop up blockers and Web filters ever made, also, Spybot search and destroy, not only being an amazing Anti-spyware program, also comes with a compleete Host file, and installs it for you, aswell as protect it agains abuse.

- Noia
August 26th, 2003, 03:41 PM
phishphreek

Oh yeah... DOH! How could I forget those?

Just one of them weeks... :rolleyes:
August 29th, 2003, 08:59 AM
jjv

Start-->Run...->"services.msc" [Enter w/o the quotes] 2 get 2 Services in XP
September 7th, 2003, 06:44 AM
lostboy

Great info here....I was just getting tired of all the adds I was getting.......I was getting ready to ask this question myself.......Thanks....AO is the bomb...
September 7th, 2003, 08:15 PM
Vorlin

Ad-aware is definitely something I like to use. Bought the full version which comes with the popup blocker as well as the ad-watch, which monitors all installations, registry changes, etc...

Very worth buying and you can look at it here.