In recent days, pop-up spam has begun appearing, by way of Windows Messenger, on the home computer of a Reg staffer. Mostly, the messages promote porn sites.

Last October, we revealed that a firm called DirectAdvertiser had worked out a way of using the Windows RPC (Remote Procedure Call) function to send spam messages which pose as system alerts.

The company has developed a means to leverage Windows' inbuilt Messenger service to blast crap at million of IP addresses.

Now DirectAdvertiser has found a reseller, in the shape of 3032.com, to ramp up the assault. The new pop-ups are grey boxes which take up perhaps a third of the computer screen. They don't pose as system ads - they are bloody great big ads.

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noticed this already. i just used
net stop messenger
.