Blow Dog

I have this OH so annoying pop-up that appears suddenly on my PC, mainly when I've an active IE window open (but totally static, no browsing) also, I have Norton Antivirus/Personal Firewall.

I've also run AdAware, but no joy

This is the pop-up:



Your help is appreciated.

Cem

super_si

i get the annoying Dell in the bottom right hand corner all the time.

Big Goon

Blo-Dog,

Go to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Services/Messenger/Properties (right click)/ change startup type to disabled.

Its so that ppl on lans can send messages to each other, being exploited for spam purposes now.

Blow Dog

Yo Goon,

Top job that man, many thanks.

Cem

Miles

I believe the newer versions of Messenger has a facility so that Microsoft may send administrative alerts to IM users. Those pesky spammers have found a way to "spam" people via this mechanism.

Big Goon

The spam Blowdog is having is not related to MSN Messenger, totally different service.

Miles

Doh!

mark_h

A firewall should stop these, blocking access to the port that the Messenger service uses.

SJ_Skyline

As Big goon says - this is not messenger related, it is a dos based command called "net send" We have been getting these on a server of ours which doesn't have messenger installed.

<syntax>
net send ip_address my_message
</syntax>


Here's one I got earlier!!



Rich

rik1471

I've been receiving the exact same messages!

Biyatch!

mark_h

Disable the Messenger service (this has nothing whatsoever to do with MSN Messenger or Windows Messenger) or get a firewall - the popups are coming in through a port that is open by default on NT4/2000/XP.

Neil Smalley

Mark,

What's the port number?

ChrisB

Port 135 IIRC.

mark_h

UDP 135 or TCP 139. I think Messenger will use UDP 135 if it can't connect to TCP 139.

BoxerFlat4

I just got hit by one as well - Norton Firewall didn't stop it, so I've added the ports above to watch.

Well annoying....

Fullonloon

Boo!