I was reinstalling my Norton Antivirus, and it popped out of the blue, via the Windows XP messenger service. It's the new type of spam that exploits the service and pops up a message out of nowhere.

net send spam...hehe...welcome to XPland...lol

Damn you Bill Gates :D

Now that I am thinking about it....since you have to copy and paste - or type in - the URL....what if they had a SHORT 3-char .COM instead? :D

Originally posted by lightnin
net send spam...hehe...welcome to XPland...lol

win2k has it too...thankfully I'm behind ICS. I don't get crap.

Whenever I shut my zone alarm i see these type of messages but I keep the zone alarm open most of the time :)

In win2k go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services adn locate "Messenger Service" and "stop" it and "disable" it.

This will get rid of that problem. ;)

Or, from the command prompt type net stop messenger

Thanks, that was successful ! :D

What msn do u use on Linux ? i use that tcl/tk based.. forgot the name

I get messenger SPAM on a weekly basis from WHR.. Thanks guys :wavey:

MGCJerry - Ah, thanks!

Ok, this is a relative new spamming technique. The guy behind it is well know in the spamming and anti-spamming circles (No name here as there could be legal implications). Needless to say he just upgraded his hardware operations and got new people to work on the spam for him.

Without getting into that any further, there are two ways of disabling this problem.

1) Turn of windows messaging. control pane->services->messanger-> stop service

2) If however you can not turn off your messaging, (ie: You need those kinky messages from your secretary) invest in a simple firewalll and disable ports 131, 139 and 135 .... or bettery yet set up your firewall to reject everything except for what you allow. Be carefull as if you do not know what you doing you can block genuine IP transmissions.

Here are a few sites to look at:

About the SPAM:

http://www.practical-tech.com/infrastructure/i11042002.htm
http://faq.ozoneasylum.com/FaqWiki/shownode.php?id=853&sortby=rating


About Windows Messanger:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q168893

And if anybody finds mr R***** ******** I hope they hang him by his testicles in the square.

In theoryu it wouldn't be hard at all with a simple script to spam a couple thousand people in 10-30 seconds.

I get that all the time :(

Yep, I get those atleast 3 times a day. Very annoying!

In theory, wouldn't that qualify as port scanning?

still havent got one of those :)

If you have a firewall running,you most likely wont get that crap..I havent seen any oif it since it started,and i hope i dont!!!

They always find a way to spam us no matter what we do to stop it.. :angry: (I wonder if they will figure out how to get around a firewall (uugghh,i hope not.....) But, Can they??????)

The Dude :angry:

Does stopping net messenger affect IM? I do use MSN IM and ICQ but I don't want to get those unsolicited net send pop ups! :confused:

Nope.

If you have a firewall running,there is no need 2 disable messenger,you wont get anything on it anywayz......

The Dude :)

PS-

There should be a LAW enforced about these companies blasting people with ads WHEN WE PAY FOR NET SERVICE ANYWAY,whats the big problem with these stupid companies thinking they can blast thier way into our homes,etc.....What gives them the rightt o do this???????? I have dobleclick.net blocked from my browser (Thier cookies) They aint gonna track where I go and send it to thier computer,im sorry :angry: :angry:

The Dude :angry: :angry:

Originally posted by The Dude*
There should be a LAW enforced about these companies blasting people with ads WHEN WE PAY FOR NET SERVICE

It's called the free market. The good thing about a free market is you can go to another company if you don't like the one you're on. Problem is, it doesn't work too well with the Internet, but you can still quit visiting sites that have ads on them. :(

Originally posted by The Dude*
What gives them the rightt o do this???????? I have dobleclick.net blocked from my browser (Thier cookies) They aint gonna track where I go and send it to thier computer,im sorry :angry: :angry:

The Dude :angry: :angry:

Hey Dude I didn't know I could do that! I think I found how do that, I went to Internet Properties in the Privacy tab I clicked on Web Sites "Edit" Typed in doubleclick.net and clicked BLOCK. Is that it? Thanks! :cool:

Yup arpmn,

You now have them blocked (hehehe) Its a good feature to have!!! Being able to block certian cookies........

The Dude :)