Yea, it's just an advertisement (you're probably getting a lot of them) and nice open door into your system. What you need to do is disable your messenger service.

Under XP:
Go into your control panel, then select administrative tools, services

Scroll down until you see "Messenger"
Double-click on it and in "Startup Type" select "Disabled"
Under "Service Status" click the "STOP" button
Then click OK

The service will then be stop and will not restart on reboot. It's not necessary for 99.9% of anything a home user would ever use. It doesn't affect Instant Messenger or Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger.

After that, I would make sure you are up to date with all of the Microsoft patches.

www.windowsupdate.com

That's Microsoft's update website.

 

I'd say that the registrant would have Microsoft Corporation in place of some random guys name... especially from a yahoo.co.uk email address.

Better Who Is:

Domain ID5661674-LRMS
Domain Name:WINDOWS-PATCH.INFO
Created On:05-Feb-2004 16:19:31 UTC
Expiration Date:05-Feb-2005 16:19:31 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:R161-LRMS
Status:ACTIVE
Status:OK
Registrant ID:C4275779-LRMS
Registrant Name:Michael Burnham
Registrant Organization:Windows-Patch.info
Registrant Street1:Po Box 5043
Registrant City:Thibodaux
Registrant Postal Code:70302
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+198.54478063
Registrant Email:michael_burnham2004@yahoo.co.uk
Admin ID:C4275778-LRMS
Admin Name:Michael Burnham
Admin Organization:Windows-Patch.info
Admin Street1:Po Box 5043
Admin City:Thibodaux
Admin Postal Code:70302
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+198.54478063
Admin Email:michael_burnham2004@yahoo.co.uk
Billing ID:C4275778-LRMS
Billing Name:Michael Burnham
Billing Organization:Windows-Patch.info
Billing Street1:Po Box 5043
Billing City:Thibodaux
Billing Postal Code:70302
Billing Country:US
Billing Phone:+198.54478063
Billing Email:michael_burnham2004@yahoo.co.uk
Tech ID:C4275778-LRMS
Tech Name:Michael Burnham
Tech Organization:Windows-Patch.info
Tech Street1:Po Box 5043
Tech City:Thibodaux
Tech Postal Code:70302
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:+198.54478063
Tech Email:michael_burnham2004@yahoo.co.uk
Name Server:B.NS.JOKER.COM
Name Server:C.NS.JOKER.COM
Name Server:A.NS.JOKER.COM

 

^ Michael Burnham OWNED!

 

Thanks guys for all your help! Messenger is now disabled!!!

 

Wantone, how is it that you've captured your screen like that? It's okay to make me feel stupid guys, I seriously don't know how.

 

Hit <shift> and print screen <prt sc>

then open a image editor and paste as new image.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Incubus
Wantone, how is it that you've captured your screen like that?

 

i been getting new updates are ready to install every day for almost a week. is this right?

 

I had a flurry of about 6 last week, alot of new patches came out recently

 

Cool, now how do I get it to actually print the screen, besides printing from my my image viewing software.