WtF is this with MSN

[~*McoreD*~]

I dunno wtf is happening with MSN
Has this happened to you guys well before
Bloody annoying popup
scary in a way, but i dont give a shit, as my BetaONE friends are there to help me





may be not a bfd, but this is the first time i had this xperience h34r:" class="inlineimg" />

[robinwilson16]

I get these as well actually!!

[Stringent]

Hmm, worrying that.

[Sephiroth]

It's not MSN, it's part of the messenger and alerter services which are normally used to send messages to and from computers on a LAN. For example, the laser printers on the domain at my college will automatically send a message to the workstation that initiated the print job telling them the document is done printing when something gets printed. Home users dont' have much use for it. To shut it off so you don't get spammed, open the services control panel and stop the Alerter and Messenger services and set them to not auto start

You can stop this by goin to your administrative options and go to your services and scroll down to your messenger and disable that option all fixed then! Had that problem also and this fixed it!

[~*McoreD*~]

Thanks guys, I hope that helps. I will let you know, when i don't get those shit again

[Darkwolven]

I got about three of those in recent months since that damn messenger spammer program was released. I turned it off finally. Who ever wrote that thing needs kicked in the nuts! Unfortunately, windows messenger is on as default. I hope MS changes this soon or a lot of people are going to get annoyed at a whole new level of spam advertising! I am however surprised that it is only being exploited now, since that messenger has been in Windows for a while now.

[~*McoreD*~]

oh yea, the administrative tools > services > messenger setting worked perfectly i reckon.
now two days passed and no those freaking annoying pop ups again, !!
thanks a lot

[skloo77]

well, i don't get that, but i did get some popup not from msn though, but from the net send command from 2k.
just pop up and say hello to me... wtf...

dun even who that guy was, couldn't ping his computer name...

[Zone-MR]

Its 100% harmless. All people can do is send messges. Its not even a security flaw. Just type "net send IP_ADDY message" in a command prompt.

Secondly, one way is just to disable the service. Although some people might have legitimate uses for it. The other is to disable netbios over TCP in the network properties. The later will provide protection against people browsing your HDD if permissions are set incorrectly.

Thirdly, I agree microsoft was insane setting up windows defaults so that people can send in a sense faked system messages. HUGE social engineering portential here.