How to stop receiving net send Spam messages?

[ROcHE]

I'm receiving like 3 or 4 spam message throught the messenger service. I know I can stop the messenger service in winxp but I may loose important network alerts this way. How can I block messages coming from the internet ??

 

[bunker]

Is this at home or work? If it's at work tell the admin about it and let him deal with it.
If it's at home, what kind of freaking important message are you going to receive there that precludes you from disabling the service???

 

[ROcHE]

Well you're right. I just realized I don't need messages

 

[HardwareAddicted]

I just got my first one and came here to see what you guys might know about it...

Something about "your PC is not protected" blah...blah..

Then it said to go to http://yoursecurity.saidme.com

Then they quoted "Windows Protection Alert #34-AXD-1029"

Anyone know about this one ??

I know it's bull.... so I didn't go to the website.... but I was hoping for more info.

~ Mark

 

[HardwareAddicted]

Well.... it appears to be spam... just as you said.

Not sure what they are doing except feeding off the fears of the masses.

Oh well

~ Mark

 

[Descartes]

If you guys were able to receive a message from someone *not* on your network, you have many more problems than spam

 

[ElDonAntonio]

Originally posted by: Descartes
If you guys were able to receive a message from someone *not* on your network, you have many more problems than spam

It's really not that hard dude, you just need to change your subnet mask.

 

[OZEE]

It's the latest form of spam. If you want to stop it, there are instructions all over these forums for how to stop the messenger service. Just do a search ... these questions have been answered dozens of times already.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: ElDonAntonio

Originally posted by: Descartes
If you guys were able to receive a message from someone *not* on your network, you have many more problems than spam

It's really not that hard dude, you just need to change your subnet mask.

What are you talking about?

I was referring to the fact that the ability to "net send" indicates an ability to negotiate an SMB session over the NetBIOS session port. If one can negotiate a NetBIOS session for SMB messaging, then one can certainly brute force the accounts on the target box as well, not to mention enumerate shares/accounts/ad nauseum.

 

[GundamW]

Stop Messager

Is that it?