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molly_davis@pulitzer_prize.com
December 5th 03, 01:25 AM
Hi,

Pop ups hang forever and peg cpu at 100%...not a bunch...just single
popups. Not all of them do it, but a lot of them do. I don't have to
have many windows open...just any odd pop-up window will nail my cpu to
100% or lately, my PC just locks up. I have to pull the power cord out
of the wall pretty much.

How do I uninstall this feature of IE6?

I have version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.021108-1929 128-bit
I have almost a gig of memory, over 100gigs harddrive space
Gigabyte motherboard-7vtxe latest updates/drivers/bioses

No IE addons...just a pretty straight forward install. The last time my
PC locked up, I was on MS Technet webpage, and I hit ctrl-N to open a
new IE window, and it locked so hard, I had to have the power company
shut down all power to my house to get back into my PC.

Love,

Molly Davis

purplehaz03
December 5th 03, 01:25 AM
> wrote in message
. ..
> Hi,
>
> Pop ups hang forever and peg cpu at 100%...not a bunch...just single
> popups. Not all of them do it, but a lot of them do. I don't have to
> have many windows open...just any odd pop-up window will nail my cpu to
> 100% or lately, my PC just locks up. I have to pull the power cord out
> of the wall pretty much.

Make sure your video drivers are up to date.
If the pop-ups appear while surfing web pages then download and install one
of the many pop-up blocker programs. Search www.download.com for popup
blocker, you'll find many free ones.

If they say messenger service in the title bar, these have nothing to do
with MSN messenger or Windows messenger.What this is a new way for spammers
to attack your computer and send you pop-up ads. If you receive these ads it
means that your computers netbios ports are wide open to the internet and
this could be a real security problem. What you should do is install a good
firewall that will block the ports the spammers use and stop the ads. A good
place to start is Zone Alarm ( www.zonelabs.com ) for an inbound/outbound
blocking firewall or use the inbound blocking only firewall built in to XP.
Configure the XP firewall to block ports 135, 137-139 and 445. Zone Alarm
will block these ports by default.

Use this site to test some of your ports security:
https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

You can disable the messenger service, which is the service the spammers
exploit, but it isn't needed to stop the ads and disabling the service will
not secure your computer from outside attacks or block the open netbios
ports.

Note: If the Messenger service is stopped, messages from the Alerter
service (notifications from your antivirus software, for example) are
not transmitted. If the Messenger service is turned off, any services
that explicitly depend on the Messenger service do not start, and an
error message is logged in the System event log. For this reason,
Microsoft recommends that you install a firewall and configure it to
block NetBIOS and RPC traffic instead of turning off the Messenger

> How do I uninstall this feature of IE6?

Not sure what feature your talking about. Popups or freeze ups are not a
feature of IE6.

> I have version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.021108-1929 128-bit
> I have almost a gig of memory, over 100gigs harddrive space
> Gigabyte motherboard-7vtxe latest updates/drivers/bioses

Video card and/or video drivers are often causes of freeze ups.

> No IE addons...just a pretty straight forward install. The last time my
> PC locked up, I was on MS Technet webpage, and I hit ctrl-N to open a
> new IE window, and it locked so hard, I had to have the power company
> shut down all power to my house to get back into my PC.

I assume you are telling a tall tale here.

Kadaitcha Man
December 5th 03, 01:25 AM
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Pop ups hang forever and peg cpu at 100%...not a bunch...just single
> popups. Not all of them do it, but a lot of them do. I don't have to
> have many windows open...just any odd pop-up window will nail my cpu
> to 100% or lately, my PC just locks up. I have to pull the power cord
> out of the wall pretty much.

Go here: http://kadaitcha.ath.cx/articles/high_cpu.aspx

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easynews
December 5th 03, 01:25 AM
Well, I really was on Technet, but no, the electric company didn't have
to shut down my neighborhood - you guessed correctly.

The thing is, it didn't used to do this, back under sp1, and older
version of IE 6. And I always hack the registery to stop messenger
service. And I have a router with a firewall on it...

It's just the way IE 6 with Sp2 handles popups on my configuration. I
have read quite a few other posts with the same problem, though not
every pc with IE6/sp2 has the same problem, but many do.

And the crashing and 100% CPU is frequent enough to be called a feature
of IE6/XP/SP2 :)

My video drivers are fine - always up to date...but they are not what
changed...the version of IE6/xp/sp2 is the difference.

Probably no fix in site. Ah well...

Love,

me


In article >,
says...
>
> > wrote in message
> . ..
> > Hi,
> >
> > Pop ups hang forever and peg cpu at 100%...not a bunch...just single
> > popups. Not all of them do it, but a lot of them do. I don't have to
> > have many windows open...just any odd pop-up window will nail my cpu to
> > 100% or lately, my PC just locks up. I have to pull the power cord out
> > of the wall pretty much.
>
> Make sure your video drivers are up to date.
> If the pop-ups appear while surfing web pages then download and install one
> of the many pop-up blocker programs. Search www.download.com for popup
> blocker, you'll find many free ones.
>
> If they say messenger service in the title bar, these have nothing to do
> with MSN messenger or Windows messenger.What this is a new way for spammers
> to attack your computer and send you pop-up ads. If you receive these ads it
> means that your computers netbios ports are wide open to the internet and
> this could be a real security problem. What you should do is install a good
> firewall that will block the ports the spammers use and stop the ads. A good
> place to start is Zone Alarm ( www.zonelabs.com ) for an inbound/outbound
> blocking firewall or use the inbound blocking only firewall built in to XP.
> Configure the XP firewall to block ports 135, 137-139 and 445. Zone Alarm
> will block these ports by default.
>
> Use this site to test some of your ports security:
> https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
>
> You can disable the messenger service, which is the service the spammers
> exploit, but it isn't needed to stop the ads and disabling the service will
> not secure your computer from outside attacks or block the open netbios
> ports.
>
> Note: If the Messenger service is stopped, messages from the Alerter
> service (notifications from your antivirus software, for example) are
> not transmitted. If the Messenger service is turned off, any services
> that explicitly depend on the Messenger service do not start, and an
> error message is logged in the System event log. For this reason,
> Microsoft recommends that you install a firewall and configure it to
> block NetBIOS and RPC traffic instead of turning off the Messenger
>
> > How do I uninstall this feature of IE6?
>
> Not sure what feature your talking about. Popups or freeze ups are not a
> feature of IE6.
>
> > I have version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.021108-1929 128-bit
> > I have almost a gig of memory, over 100gigs harddrive space
> > Gigabyte motherboard-7vtxe latest updates/drivers/bioses
>
> Video card and/or video drivers are often causes of freeze ups.
>
> > No IE addons...just a pretty straight forward install. The last time my
> > PC locked up, I was on MS Technet webpage, and I hit ctrl-N to open a
> > new IE window, and it locked so hard, I had to have the power company
> > shut down all power to my house to get back into my PC.
>
> I assume you are telling a tall tale here.
>
>
>

easynews
December 5th 03, 01:25 AM
Hiya fooq,

may not fix my problem, but these are some great links! Some stuff I've
forgotten, and some new stuff. Thanks!

-love

me


In article <729541434010b57293ba45fb7e3f6b83@TeraNews>,
says...
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Pop ups hang forever and peg cpu at 100%...not a bunch...just single
> > popups. Not all of them do it, but a lot of them do. I don't have to
> > have many windows open...just any odd pop-up window will nail my cpu
> > to 100% or lately, my PC just locks up. I have to pull the power cord
> > out of the wall pretty much.
>
> Go here: http://kadaitcha.ath.cx/articles/high_cpu.aspx
>
>

Kadaitcha Man
December 5th 03, 01:25 AM
easynews wrote:

> Sp2

That'll be the problem.

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Hitler look like a study in humility in comparison.

H Leboeuf
December 5th 03, 01:25 AM
Have you been hacked?

TinyBar
http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/TinyBar.html
TinyBar/atk also eats a large amount of bandwidth, which may make modem
connections so slow as to be unusable.

--

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Web page: http://www.generation.net/~hleboeuf/index.htm


> wrote in message
. ..
> Hi,
>
> Pop ups hang forever and peg cpu at 100%...not a bunch...just single
> popups. Not all of them do it, but a lot of them do. I don't have to
> have many windows open...just any odd pop-up window will nail my cpu to
> 100% or lately, my PC just locks up. I have to pull the power cord out
> of the wall pretty much.
>
> How do I uninstall this feature of IE6?
>
> I have version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.021108-1929 128-bit
> I have almost a gig of memory, over 100gigs harddrive space
> Gigabyte motherboard-7vtxe latest updates/drivers/bioses
>
> No IE addons...just a pretty straight forward install. The last time my
> PC locked up, I was on MS Technet webpage, and I hit ctrl-N to open a
> new IE window, and it locked so hard, I had to have the power company
> shut down all power to my house to get back into my PC.
>
> Love,
>
> Molly Davis

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP
December 5th 03, 01:27 AM
"easynews" > wrote in message

> Well, I really was on Technet, but no, the electric company didn't
> have
> to shut down my neighborhood - you guessed correctly.
>
> The thing is, it didn't used to do this, back under sp1, and older
> version of IE 6. And I always hack the registery to stop messenger
> service. And I have a router with a firewall on it...
>
> It's just the way IE 6 with Sp2 handles popups on my configuration. I
> have read quite a few other posts with the same problem, though not
> every pc with IE6/sp2 has the same problem, but many do.
>
> And the crashing and 100% CPU is frequent enough to be called a
> feature
> of IE6/XP/SP2 :)
>
> My video drivers are fine - always up to date...but they are not what
> changed...the version of IE6/xp/sp2 is the difference.
>
> Probably no fix in site. Ah well...
>
> Love,
>
> me
>
>
> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> > wrote in message
>> . ..
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Pop ups hang forever and peg cpu at 100%...not a bunch...just single
>>> popups. Not all of them do it, but a lot of them do. I don't have to
>>> have many windows open...just any odd pop-up window will nail my
>>> cpu to 100% or lately, my PC just locks up. I have to pull the
>>> power cord out
>>> of the wall pretty much.
>>
>> Make sure your video drivers are up to date.
>> If the pop-ups appear while surfing web pages then download and
>> install one of the many pop-up blocker programs. Search
>> www.download.com for popup blocker, you'll find many free ones.
>>
>> If they say messenger service in the title bar, these have nothing
>> to do with MSN messenger or Windows messenger.What this is a new way
>> for spammers to attack your computer and send you pop-up ads. If you
>> receive these ads it means that your computers netbios ports are
>> wide open to the internet and this could be a real security problem.
>> What you should do is install a good firewall that will block the
>> ports the spammers use and stop the ads. A good place to start is
>> Zone Alarm ( www.zonelabs.com ) for an inbound/outbound blocking
>> firewall or use the inbound blocking only firewall built in to XP.
>> Configure the XP firewall to block ports 135, 137-139 and 445. Zone
>> Alarm will block these ports by default.
>>
>> Use this site to test some of your ports security:
>> https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
>>
>> You can disable the messenger service, which is the service the
>> spammers exploit, but it isn't needed to stop the ads and disabling
>> the service will not secure your computer from outside attacks or
>> block the open netbios ports.
>>
>> Note: If the Messenger service is stopped, messages from the Alerter
>> service (notifications from your antivirus software, for example) are
>> not transmitted. If the Messenger service is turned off, any services
>> that explicitly depend on the Messenger service do not start, and an
>> error message is logged in the System event log. For this reason,
>> Microsoft recommends that you install a firewall and configure it to
>> block NetBIOS and RPC traffic instead of turning off the Messenger
>>
>>> How do I uninstall this feature of IE6?
>>
>> Not sure what feature your talking about. Popups or freeze ups are
>> not a feature of IE6.
>>
>>> I have version 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2.021108-1929 128-bit
>>> I have almost a gig of memory, over 100gigs harddrive space
>>> Gigabyte motherboard-7vtxe latest updates/drivers/bioses
>>
>> Video card and/or video drivers are often causes of freeze ups.
>>
>>> No IE addons...just a pretty straight forward install. The last
>>> time my PC locked up, I was on MS Technet webpage, and I hit ctrl-N
>>> to open a
>>> new IE window, and it locked so hard, I had to have the power
>>> company shut down all power to my house to get back into my PC.
>>
>> I assume you are telling a tall tale here.

If you enable the WinXP firewall for your connection it will stop the
Messenger Service pop-ups.

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