How did this happen?

[Shooters]

I came home tonight to find this on my desktop. How did this guy do this? I looked in My Network Places and found that Absolut is a user in my workgroup. I know it's not a big deal, but I hate it when people do stupid sh!t like this.

 

[elchen]

haha...he prolly got through ur firewall

 

[Shooters]

I didn't think I had a firewall. I'm on an ethernet connection here at my apartment.

 

[Booty]

Are you running win2k? I think there's a built in messanger service in 2k...otherwise I have no clue

 

[Shooters]

Yeah, as a matter of fact I am running Win2k. How do I make it so that my computer can't be seen on the network yet I can still see other people's? I knew how to do this in Win98 but not in Win2k. When I open my own computer on the network I saw that my printer is there. I disabled file and print sharing yet it's still there. How do I get rid of it?

 

[kw3i]

best place to ask this question would be in the networking forum, but here is what my guess would be. you proabably have the messinging service set to automatic under services. your on the default workgroup named "workgroup" which is what windows defaults to on a fresh install. your apartment complex probably doesnt do any subnetting between the apartments (im not sure if that would make a diff or not). you have file and printsharin and or netBIOS installed and enabled on your external NIC. check and see if im anywhere close in my guesses: )

 

[mztykal]

Wow, nice wallpaper. Care to share? 🙂

 

[VoodooExtreme]

<< Wow, nice wallpaper. Care to share? 🙂 >>


Wow, you read my mind mztykal! :Q

 

[jimmygates]

The first thing I can think of is Window 2K's built in messenger....Windows popup? I believe it was available in Windows NT 4.0 also.



-jimbo

 

[FirmPete]

It is the messenger....

you can type &quot;net stop messenger&quot; from the commandprompt to disable it.

 

[FirmPete]

More:
net config server /hidden:yes makes your computer invisible for networkbrowsing.

 

[Shooters]

Thanks for the help guys.

<<Wow, nice wallpaper. Care to share?>>

here you go

 

[buck]

I used to do that in class. Its fun. 😀

BTW, why dont you play counter Strike?

 

[lazyboy]

Remove the default shares of your drives and unbind file sharing from tc/pip. Also disable your telnet server and remote registry services. You might want to look into a firewall also. It was prolly messenger but those are just some other issues.