[dba-Tech] Re: Virus mail

Francisco H Tapia my.lists at verizon.net
Fri Oct 24 18:31:03 CDT 2003


If in fact he is talking about the latter (IE popups from websites) then 
a simple visit to www.endpopups.com will clean that problem up.  For 
better results I recommend Firebird.

Bryan Carbonnell wrote:

> On 24 Oct 2003 at 11:08, Francisco H Tapia wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ruben you said it best "Linksys DSL router", keyword, ROUTER... most
>>if not all DSL routers have built in Firewalls in them.  You will
>>probably never see a Pop up (net send) message on you pc, even more so
>>if you are running Win95/98 because it's a diffrent messaging system
>>there.
> 
> 
> Depends on which type of pop up you are talking about.
> 
> If you are talking about the Windows Messenger popups, then yes a 
> router with a firewall should block it. If you are talking about Web 
> popups, then firewalled router probably won't do a thing about them.
> 
> --
> Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at sympatico.ca
> Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, because you are crunchy and 
> taste good with ketchup.

-- 
-Francisco




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