I keep getting a lot of junk porn mail. I set my filters to filter out just about everything that comes through, but usually one gets through. Yesterday, one got through that said, "Membership Information" and stupidly I clicked on it and got screen after screen of porn sites. As I was closing these screens down I got a popup that froze my system. It said, " An IP scan has been done and you are in violation...local authorities will contact you soon..." Has anybody seen this. I have no idea what this is all about. I'm really frustrated with this kind of stuff. Is there anyway of keeping this porn crap off of my system? I have closed email accounts and opened new ones in order to fight this, but it seems that this kind of mail always finds me. Can someone help? Thanks in advance.

I vaguely remember some agency you could report it to, but if any action was taken, I don't remember hearing any outstanding results. Your best bet is basically, just have a knowledge of all your familiar e-mail adresses/domain names/letterheads, or companies you deal with. Anything else you don't recognize, I would delete post haste before opening. Anything else I could mention should be blatantly obvious. Just my ¼ cent.

Recently I've found while looking for device drivers, that some sites had code embedded into the web page that was trying to write a backdoor trojan to my system 32 folder (in Windows 2000). Luckily, my AVG anti-virus caught the file, and alerted me. Porno sites are getting malicous lately. I saw another webpage that tried to inform me that I could not view the page without a required plug-in. The plug-in was obviously a porno pop-up. I have worked on customer computers that have had these plug-ins. They can be totally obnoxious. If you are comfortable editing your registry; you may want to check under the current user and local machine run keys to make sure everything loading is something you are familiar with. A good source of cross reference is Pacman's Pac Portal for startup items. It is a great site and source of information on startup items. http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm#Search

Yesterday I used F-Prot antivirus from dos and found W32 Downloader.Dyfuca virus in the Internet temporary files(from the program Optimizer,the parasite with extension *.cpy).The antivirus delete switch got rid of it.Adaware and Spybot had also deleted the Spyware files and registry keys for same.Public mail like Hotmail seem to offer limited protection(the number of mails received is more a flood than anything else) compared to what you can install on your hard drive to protect against porn and popups.Firewalls like Zone Alarm full install does prevent contacting sensitive websites but the unwanted mail still pours in unchecked.It seems to be a by-product of web surfing activity.

Chech for the Esepor.A virus. computer solutions

If you don't have need to leave your email addy on a website and you don't often give your email addy out, you can use message rules to bin them. Filtering on words proved hopeless. What I decided was to setup two rules that binned everything except addy's you specify (sorta doing things in reverse). See this: http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/140441.html Derek

Ooooops. I gave you the wrong link. It was this one: http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/142054.html Apologies Derek