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95998 2002-11-04 23:43:00 I was downloading fom KaZaA-lite last night and had a strange pop-up type thing.

see the screen shot : www.geocities.com/robsonde/sc.jpg

I was using KaZaA liste so should have had no pop ups.

it look to me as if it mpart of MSN messanger? but i want not running it.

csrss.exe is the process that owns the window. what is that?

any one seen some thing like this?

virus?

hackers?

any help?

thanks 		robsonde (120)
95999 2002-11-05 00:08:00 Sorry mate, Geocities wont allow you to link directly to an image like that, you have to create a basic HTML page and put the pic in that!

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Pic</TITLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
www.geocities.com/robsonde/sc.jpg
</BODY
</HTML>

Cheers 		Chilling_Silence (9)
96000 2002-11-05 00:15:00 Csrss is a primary Windows process and cannot be played with/disabled at all. It is used for a lot of standard things in Windows but it is also used by various virus's as well.

From MS - "This is the user-mode portion of the Win32 subsystem (with Win32.sys being the kernel-mode portion). Csrss stands for client/server run-time subsystem and is an essential subsystem that must be running at all times. Csrss is responsible for console windows, creating and/or deleting threads, and some parts of the 16-bit virtual MS-DOS environment."

As you noticed it after Kazza-lite it would pay to check your PC with a virus scanner updated to the latest definitions just in case. Csrss is used by a lot of the latest and greatest virus's available worldwide via your P2P program. 		John Grieve (367)
96001 2002-11-05 00:22:00 try www.geocities.com/robsonde/index.html robsonde (120)
96002 2002-11-05 00:50:00 I heard about this, a spammer is using the windows messenger service to send spam.

Read about it here:

www.theregister.co.uk 		bmason (508)
96003 2002-11-05 01:01:00 > I heard about this, a spammer is using the windows
> messenger service to send spam.
>
> Read about it here:
>
> www.theregister.co.uk

Interesting ;\ 		­­­­ (2449)
96004 2002-11-05 01:09:00 that looks like the right answer.........


thanks 		robsonde (120)
96005 2002-11-05 02:02:00 Man that's dodgy. I dont like WM anyways, and XP has its shortcomings.

However, the www.directadvertiser.com website/Homepage no longer seems to be registered?!

Any suggestions?? 		Chilling_Silence (9)
96006 2002-11-05 02:29:00 I had not seen the sceenie at first when I answered. That is one very nasty "feature" of messenger! It should be killed off if at all possible and if it cannot I seriously suggest somebody with some clout have a talk to MS about removing that "feature" completely from the messenger service.

Ahhh the glory that is Microsoft - the "criminals" best friend :D 		John Grieve (367)
96007 2002-11-05 02:34:00 Sorry better clarify my statement (don't want to be sued by MS do we :D )

ALL AND ANY SPAM IS CRIMINAL

Is that clear enough to cover what I said?? :D 		John Grieve (367)
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