Download Receiver

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Peter Godfrey

I have just had a message pop up on my screen headed Download
Receiver.

It states that the computer has not checked for an update of Download
Receiver for a month and do I want it to do so.

I have never had the message pop up before.

Is this a proper system message or have I got a trojan.

Thanks in anticipation of a reply.
 
Peter said:
I have just had a message pop up on my screen headed Download
Receiver.

It states that the computer has not checked for an update of Download
Receiver for a month and do I want it to do so.

I have never had the message pop up before.

Is this a proper system message or have I got a trojan.

Thanks in anticipation of a reply.
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Do you have both a software firewall and recently updated A-V running at all
times ? I suspect what you've seen is Messenger Service spam, which is a
fairly new thing. A firewall should correct this.
 
Thanks for both your replies.

I am running Windows 98 and it would appear that this version does
have the Windows Messenger as the suggested web site only talks about
later versions
 
Peter said:
Thanks for both your replies.

I am running Windows 98 and it would appear that this version does
have the Windows Messenger as the suggested web site only talks about
later versions
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As Fanchon points out, it's a good idea to disable the Windows Messenger
service whenever possible. However, having a software firewall is even more
important. Zonelabs, Kerio, and Sygate all offer firewalls which are free
for personal use.
 
Peter Godfrey said:
Thanks for coming back

I do have a firewall.

Instant messenger is not running on my machine and never has been
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Instant Messenger is not the same as Windows Messenger or
the messenger service.
 
Thanks for that

In that case as I running Windows 98 it would appear that I do not
have Windows messenger
 
Peter said:
Thanks for coming back

I do have a firewall.

Instant messenger is not running on my machine and never has been
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there's some misunderstandings going on here...

first, windows messaging service is not the same as msn messanger (the
instant messanger you spoke of)... it's a network service for sending
message boxes (like warning dialogs) to remote machines...

and the person you're responding to seems to be unaware that windows 98
doesn't have native support for services, period, so the advice to
disable the service is a little misleading... (that's not to say w98
doesn't have an equivalent to the windows messaging service, however, i
don't use w98 so i don't know if it does or not)
 
kurt wismer said:
there's some misunderstandings going on here...

first, windows messaging service is not the same as msn messanger (the
instant messanger you spoke of)... it's a network service for sending
message boxes (like warning dialogs) to remote machines...

and the person you're responding to seems to be unaware that windows 98
doesn't have native support for services, period, so the advice to
disable the service is a little misleading...
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Full marks to Kurt -- this is my reading of the situation too...
... (that's not to say w98
doesn't have an equivalent to the windows messaging service, however, i
don't use w98 so i don't know if it does or not)
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Indeed, Win9x (and maybe even Windows for Workgroups and earlier Win3.x
versions) have (some) support for this mechanism. In Win9x it is provided
by the network helper application known as WinPopup (winpopup.exe), which
IIRC by default queues, rather than displays, messages though that can be
changed. WinPopup is not enabled by default and is not even installed by
default in older versions of Windows. Further, even if the OP had WinPopup
enabled and set to "Pop up dialog on message receipt", the display dialog
is much different from the NT-based Windows Messenger service dialog -- it
is clearly the WinPopup application window and cannot be mistaken for a
normal information dialog.

It seems likely that either the OP has something running on his machine he
is unaware of or was fooled by a (JavaScript-ed) dialog box related to some
event in his web browser (such as closing a window or the whole browser)
and like stupid things that JavaScript allows a browser to do that it
shouldn't...

From a little Googling (that is a valid verb now, right?? 8-) ) it seems
highly likely that it is the former. I suggest the OP Googles for
"DownloadReceiver"...
 
Thank you for your response.

It is the fact that I am running Windows 98 and therefore do not have
Windows Messaging that I was trying to get over but failed <g>

Thank you very much for your advise re Googling for Downloadreceiver

I did so and got to page

http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/DownloadReceiver.html

I have now deleted Download Receiver via Control Panel

Thanks very much for your help
 
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