What sort of spam is this...and how do I stop it?

Noriaki

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What sort of spam is this...and how do I stop it?

http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~jmason/ss.jpg

Okay...so I was off preparing dinner and when I come back this beauty is up on my screen.
What the hell?

I did a re-install of Windows just the other day, and I had one something like it shortly after the fresh install before I had any sort of messanger service that I know of installed...
Now this is #2...I have Trillian installed now. That doesn't look like a trillian window though.

Before that I've never seen anything like this before.
Is this some new kinda spam? Or was I just lucky before? Or what?

Does anyone know what this "messanger service" is, and how to get rid of it?

Christ I formatted all 3 of my hard drives 2 days ago...how can I have gotten this crap already.

My computer has a name now instead of the weird random stuff Win2k offers as default (which I usually take)...could that have any signifigance?
 

NikPreviousAcct

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That's a "net send" message.

I'm guessing you're running WinNT (or some Win2k flavor) and you're on an NT network, right?

nik
 

Furor

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Go to Run and type cmd
the type net stop msg

you'll never get it again.
 

aphex

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The page you are attempting attemping to access
"http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~jmason/ss.jpg"
is not available.

 

Noriaki

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Originally posted by: aphexII
The page you are attempting attemping to access
"http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~jmason/ss.jpg"
is not available.

Sorry about that I was dicking around...

It's back.
 

Noriaki

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Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
That's a "net send" message.

I'm guessing you're running WinNT (or some Win2k flavor) and you're on an NT network, right?

nik

Yeah I run 2k...and I guess I'm on whatever the hell Shaw@Home provides for a network :p


Furor: That seemed to do something or another.
Now will this stay gone, or do I need to set that up to run every boot?

I used to be a Win9x Pro, unfortunately I'm an NT newb :p

I wonder why I've never had this before....
Maybe it was disabled in Previous installs? But I've never installed things differently...I've used this exact CD before...
Weird....
 

BennyD

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simply right click on my computer > go to manage from the menu

in this window expand "services and applications" and select "services"

look for the service called "messanger" and double click it (properties)

change "startup type" to "disabled"

you may also need to stop it for it to work straight away

hope that helps
 

Codewiz

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This is a NEW breed of spam using the built in net messaging client in NT/Win2k/WinXP.

They just send the message to a range of IP addresses. When I worked for my university and people got sircam and it was hard to trace where the machine was, I would send the machine a Net Send message telling them to call my number. It is a nice tool. Too bad people are abusing it now like everything else.
 

Noriaki

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Originally posted by: BennyD
simply right click on my computer > go to manage from the menu

in this window expand "services and applications" and select "services"

look for the service called "messanger" and double click it (properties)

change "startup type" to "disabled"

you may also need to stop it for it to work straight away

hope that helps

Thanks, that's what I'm looking for :p

Stupid Messanger Service.
 

Noriaki

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Jun 3, 2000
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Originally posted by: Codewiz
This is a NEW breed of spam using the built in net messaging client in NT/Win2k/WinXP.

They just send the message to a range of IP addresses. When I worked for my university and people got sircam and it was hard to trace where the machine was, I would send the machine a Net Send message telling them to call my number. It is a nice tool. Too bad people are abusing it now like everything else.

Oh, so this is a relatively new way to spam and harass people?
I guess that would explain why I've never seen it before.

I kinda figured it was the built in NT Messanger Service...but I had no idea why I'd never seen it before or how to kill it :p
 

Zenmervolt

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I've got netsend enabled, but I put myself on a really strangely named workgroup. Did that last year when some morons on the college network found NetSend and started harassing everyone on the damn network with it. I just changed the name of my workgroup to an obscure name (instead of the default "workgroup") and I've not received a netsend since.

ZV
 

Noriaki

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Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
I've got netsend enabled, but I put myself on a really strangely named workgroup. Did that last year when some morons on the college network found NetSend and started harassing everyone on the damn network with it. I just changed the name of my workgroup to an obscure name (instead of the default "workgroup") and I've not received a netsend since.

ZV

Heh, my Workgroup name isn't Workgroup either.
Thanks for the tip though :p