RE: Popup security sales gimmick

["Kyle Lai, CISSP, CISA" <kyle () kylelai com>]

In some instance, these pop-ups use "messenger" service to pop-up the
messages.
In WinNT, 2000, and XP systems, you might want to consider disabling the
"messenger" service.

/Kyle

Kyle Lai, CISSP, CISA
KLC Consulting, Inc.
617-921-5410
klai () klcconsulting net


-----Original Message-----
From: netsec novice [mailto:netsec9 () hotmail com]
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 9:54 PM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Popup security sales gimmick


I ran into this popup and initially it concerned me.  I thought I would post
it here for confirmation on its validity.  It appears to me that this site
runs a script that simply displays your c: drive contents rather than
actually being able to obtain the information.  I could see how it could
scare some people though.

Check it out for yourself.
http://www.interneteraser.com/error.html



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