you have a firewall in front of this server?  You blocking port 135 - 139 
and 445 in the router?

At 02:12 PM 11/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>    I am not so sure that this is totally innocuous.
>   My server has been running nicely for at least the last year or so - no
>reboots needed except for installing patches, except for 2 problems:
>
>This morning. I wake up and find all of my websites are down. The logs are
>full of  hundreds of this one error:
>
>"208.206.10.19"
>"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)"
>"unknown exception condition
>Error occured for unknown cause.
>Date/Time: 11/13/02 07:02:11
>Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
>Remote Address: 208.206.10.19
>
>So I log onto the server, and there are hundreds of pop up alerts saying:
>   ---------------------
>Application popup: Messenger Service
>Message from CAUTION to 208.206.10.16 on 11/12/2002 6:25:47 AM
>
>SECURITY ALERT!
>
>YOUR COMPUTER IS RECORDING!!
>
>Currently Recorded Items...
>
>   * Instant Messages
>   * Chat Sessions
>   * Websites Visited
>   * Pop-Ups Loaded
>   * Pictures in YOUR Email & on your hard drive
>   * Started & Finished Downloads
>   * Your Credit Card Information
>   * Your Home Address & Phone
>(Do you have Autocompleted turned on?)
>
>For Information on how to BEST protect yourself,
>send an empty email to:
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>-------------------
>    The logs show that the cold fusion service restarted itself a LOT of
>time, and that didn't help.
>   I manually restarted the cold fusion services as well as the web
>services, and that didn't help.
>I had to reboot, and that fixed the problem.
>
>A similar thing happened about a week ago.
>
>Could be a coincidence, but until these messages happened, I had no problem.
>Al
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> >The link Howie posted is a good description of the problem. As it states,
> >you can disable the Messenger service to prevent this. Or, you can just
> >click "OK" and ignore it, frankly - it can't really do anything to the
> >machine.
>
>
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