martoche Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 Hi,hope someone can help me. I have some spam coming upon my bidding box when I play and I can take them off the screen. The only choice I have is to reboot the computer. This can happen very often during 2 or 3 days and disepear during 10 days. This makes me really mad, specially when it happens during tournement. Does someone here had already this pb ? Hope really to find some help here. Thank you very much. My computer has windows 98. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack_hh Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 Hi, This one is a bit unclear to me. What do you mean by "spam"?Is it some text, or a message box, or something else? Pleasegive some more details. Regards Andreas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martoche Posted December 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 It's a message wrote on a pink paper who say " privacy alert" or "privacy agency". This message is about 10cmx10 cm. It goes off when I reboot but comes back few minutes after i begin to play. And the only choice I have is to turn off the computer for these days when I have this message. Hope you understood what i try to explain but I'm french, and I try to do my best. Thank you very much for trying to understand my pb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 It's a message wrote on a pink paper who say " privacy alert" or "privacy agency". This message is about 10cmx10 cm. It goes off when I reboot but comes back few minutes after i begin to play. And the only choice I have is to turn off the computer for these days when I have this message. Hope you understood what i try to explain but I'm french, and I try to do my best. Thank you very much for trying to understand my pb. Hello Martoche Fred or Uday would need to answer for sure, however, I don't think that what you are experiencing is connected to the BBO application. There are a number of types of SPAM based on Windows Messenger Service. I would guess that your problems are related to this. [i can't imagine that anyone would bother to develop a SPAMbot targeting BBO] It would be very useful to understand whether this same message crops up when the Bridge Base Online application is not running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack_hh Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 Hi, It seems your problem has nothing to do with the BBO software itself - it is either a message from a personal firewall (if you haveinstalled such a beast :) ), or some Adware or Spyware found itsplace on your computer. If it's the firewall thing, adjust the firewall settings to always allowconnection to BBO without any further confirmation. Should it be some Adware or Spyware, download and installa) SpybotSD and :) Ad-aware and run these programs to getrid of the annoying message/s. SpybotSD: http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?...ng=fr&page=newsAd-aware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ Good luck Andreas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hog Posted December 6, 2003 Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 I think I know what this is. Depending on which site you visit, there are pop ups one of which is this "privacy alert" pop up which wants you to download software to "protect your privacy" from prying eyes. This has nothing to do with bbo at all. Best is to download and install a freeware pop up stopper. Have a look at www.download.com and you should find what you need. CheersRon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martoche Posted December 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2003 thanks a lot to all of you for all your answer. I will follow all the advices you gave me and I'll let you know if it works. Very nice from you to have answer so quiclky. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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