Send Console Message Net Spam

DarkEdge · 11-20-2002, 10:48 PM

How in the hell do I block people from sending me that console message. People are abusing it to send spam messages and I forget how to disable it.

****ing A I can't stand some people.

Can O' Beans · 11-20-2002, 11:07 PM

Disable the Messenger service if you're in Win2K/XP.

Don't worry, it's not part of MSN Messenger, if you use that.

DarkEdge · 11-21-2002, 08:16 AM

How?

nuclear · 11-21-2002, 09:08 AM

start - settings- control panel - administrative tools - services
In services, you will want to get to messenger
double click on it, set it to disabled if you do not want it to start anymore. Click on stop to stop the service right now.
On disabled, the service will not start anymore, on manual, if an application request the messenger service, then the service will start.

Want more info ?

DarkEdge · 11-21-2002, 12:17 PM

Thanks. It was just one of those things I couldn't remember.

Brad · 11-26-2002, 12:49 AM

I'm dealing with this at work all the time now, it's fairly widespread at the moment.

nuclear · 11-26-2002, 07:40 AM

whitin work or from net to your workplace ?
If from net to workplace, then block the port for netbios (i don't remember the port number)
Within the workplace, that's a little harder, you could remove the net command, but then you would have to change your logon script, or you could move the net command to another folder, then do a variable on each computer to point to the folder like %windir%. With that, you could call your script correctly and also remove the net command from the path, so it is a little harder to use.

Brad · 11-27-2002, 12:43 AM

hehe, I'm a computer technician, I'm servicing customers computers. One of the most frequent complaints at the moment is netsend related

jtroutma · 11-27-2002, 01:03 AM

I work for a High School and a student thought that he would be cute and send me a spam message on one of my workstations. Guess he didnt realize that his name and computer name that he was on was sent with the message

:shrug: :shrug:

Sometimes I wonder about our youth.....

Brad · 11-28-2002, 12:07 AM

did you give him any form of punishment?

jtroutma · 11-28-2002, 02:24 PM

I just left a message in his personal folder entitled ... "I am watching you..."

nuclear · 11-28-2002, 02:53 PM

so you weren't the BOFH ?

jtroutma · 11-28-2002, 08:18 PM

Your going to have to spell that one out for me......too drunk to decript it

nuclear · 11-28-2002, 08:20 PM

BOFH means Bastard operator from hell
If you search for bofh, you might be able to find the story relating to it. It's really funny

jtroutma · 11-28-2002, 08:22 PM

NAWWWW

I am not that mean......(but if he does it again, I will make sure his name is on the next suspension list

)

Joe · 11-28-2002, 08:35 PM

Umm I would NOT disable messenger. There are many services in windows that rely on messenger to relay error messages and such.

Simply block Port 137 - 139 on your router/firewall.

They are sent via RPC and RPC rides on those ports.

jamicon · 11-28-2002, 10:21 PM

Whenever i go to a lan, i always type
"net stop messenger" into CMD when i boot up

at the last lan i went to, this program that changes who the message is from got out, well, needless to say, within the hour one guy was almost completly kicked out of the lan, as messages kept flying in the from "net send workgroup " while someone else was actually sending them !

11-20-2002, 10:48 PM	#1
DarkEdge Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sugar Land, Tx Posts: 176	Send Console Message Net Spam How in the hell do I block people from sending me that console message. People are abusing it to send spam messages and I forget how to disable it. ****ing A I can't stand some people. __________________ Intel p4 2.26@3.0 Abit BD7II-Raid,1gb Corsair 3200 ATI Radeon 9700 3 80gb Seagates 3 40gb Maxtors

11-21-2002, 08:16 AM	#3
DarkEdge Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sugar Land, Tx Posts: 176	How? __________________ Intel p4 2.26@3.0 Abit BD7II-Raid,1gb Corsair 3200 ATI Radeon 9700 3 80gb Seagates 3 40gb Maxtors

11-21-2002, 12:17 PM	#5
DarkEdge Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sugar Land, Tx Posts: 176	Thanks. It was just one of those things I couldn't remember. __________________ Intel p4 2.26@3.0 Abit BD7II-Raid,1gb Corsair 3200 ATI Radeon 9700 3 80gb Seagates 3 40gb Maxtors

11-26-2002, 12:49 AM	#6
Brad Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nuu Zeeelin Posts: 3,175	I'm dealing with this at work all the time now, it's fairly widespread at the moment. __________________ 2x P3 1100's at 1400, Abit VP6, 2x Corsair 256mb PC150 sticks, 20gb 'cuda ATA-III, 2x 40gb 'cuda ATA-IV in raid 0. 20" Trinitron. No fans 2x 2400+ at 2288mhz (16.0 x 143), Iwill MPX2, 2x Kingmax PC-3200 256mb sticks, 4x 20gb 60gxp in Raid 5 on a Promise SX6000. Asus Ti4200 320/630. Cooled by Water

11-27-2002, 12:43 AM	#8
Brad Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nuu Zeeelin Posts: 3,175	hehe, I'm a computer technician, I'm servicing customers computers. One of the most frequent complaints at the moment is netsend related __________________ 2x P3 1100's at 1400, Abit VP6, 2x Corsair 256mb PC150 sticks, 20gb 'cuda ATA-III, 2x 40gb 'cuda ATA-IV in raid 0. 20" Trinitron. No fans 2x 2400+ at 2288mhz (16.0 x 143), Iwill MPX2, 2x Kingmax PC-3200 256mb sticks, 4x 20gb 60gxp in Raid 5 on a Promise SX6000. Asus Ti4200 320/630. Cooled by Water

11-20-2002, 11:07 PM	#2
Can O' Beans Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Pa - USA Posts: 264	Disable the Messenger service if you're in Win2K/XP. Don't worry, it's not part of MSN Messenger, if you use that.

11-21-2002, 09:08 AM	#4
nuclear Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Quebec Posts: 46	start - settings- control panel - administrative tools - services In services, you will want to get to messenger double click on it, set it to disabled if you do not want it to start anymore. Click on stop to stop the service right now. On disabled, the service will not start anymore, on manual, if an application request the messenger service, then the service will start. Want more info ?

11-26-2002, 07:40 AM	#7
nuclear Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Quebec Posts: 46	whitin work or from net to your workplace ? If from net to workplace, then block the port for netbios (i don't remember the port number) Within the workplace, that's a little harder, you could remove the net command, but then you would have to change your logon script, or you could move the net command to another folder, then do a variable on each computer to point to the folder like %windir%. With that, you could call your script correctly and also remove the net command from the path, so it is a little harder to use.

11-27-2002, 01:03 AM	#9
jtroutma Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: SLO, CA Posts: 837	I work for a High School and a student thought that he would be cute and send me a spam message on one of my workstations. Guess he didnt realize that his name and computer name that he was on was sent with the message :shrug: :shrug: Sometimes I wonder about our youth..... __________________ Athlon64 X2 4200+ @ 2.5Ghz (250FSB x 10) OCZ VX 1GB 4000 @ 250FSB (6-2-2-2 timmings) DFI LANParty nForce4 Ultra-D SCSI Raid 5 x (3) Cheetah 15K HDDs LSI Express 500 (128MB cache) OCZ PowerStream 520W PSU ATI X850XT PE (Stock) DTEK WhiteWater + DTEK Custom Radiator Eheim 1250

11-28-2002, 12:07 AM	#10
Brad Thermophile Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nuu Zeeelin Posts: 3,175	did you give him any form of punishment? __________________ 2x P3 1100's at 1400, Abit VP6, 2x Corsair 256mb PC150 sticks, 20gb 'cuda ATA-III, 2x 40gb 'cuda ATA-IV in raid 0. 20" Trinitron. No fans 2x 2400+ at 2288mhz (16.0 x 143), Iwill MPX2, 2x Kingmax PC-3200 256mb sticks, 4x 20gb 60gxp in Raid 5 on a Promise SX6000. Asus Ti4200 320/630. Cooled by Water

11-28-2002, 02:24 PM	#11
jtroutma Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: SLO, CA Posts: 837	I just left a message in his personal folder entitled ... "I am watching you..." __________________ Athlon64 X2 4200+ @ 2.5Ghz (250FSB x 10) OCZ VX 1GB 4000 @ 250FSB (6-2-2-2 timmings) DFI LANParty nForce4 Ultra-D SCSI Raid 5 x (3) Cheetah 15K HDDs LSI Express 500 (128MB cache) OCZ PowerStream 520W PSU ATI X850XT PE (Stock) DTEK WhiteWater + DTEK Custom Radiator Eheim 1250

11-28-2002, 02:53 PM	#12
nuclear Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Quebec Posts: 46	so you weren't the BOFH ?

11-28-2002, 08:18 PM	#13
jtroutma Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: SLO, CA Posts: 837	Your going to have to spell that one out for me......too drunk to decript it __________________ Athlon64 X2 4200+ @ 2.5Ghz (250FSB x 10) OCZ VX 1GB 4000 @ 250FSB (6-2-2-2 timmings) DFI LANParty nForce4 Ultra-D SCSI Raid 5 x (3) Cheetah 15K HDDs LSI Express 500 (128MB cache) OCZ PowerStream 520W PSU ATI X850XT PE (Stock) DTEK WhiteWater + DTEK Custom Radiator Eheim 1250

11-28-2002, 08:20 PM	#14
nuclear Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Quebec Posts: 46	BOFH means Bastard operator from hell If you search for bofh, you might be able to find the story relating to it. It's really funny

11-28-2002, 08:22 PM	#15
jtroutma Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: SLO, CA Posts: 837	NAWWWW I am not that mean......(but if he does it again, I will make sure his name is on the next suspension list ) __________________ Athlon64 X2 4200+ @ 2.5Ghz (250FSB x 10) OCZ VX 1GB 4000 @ 250FSB (6-2-2-2 timmings) DFI LANParty nForce4 Ultra-D SCSI Raid 5 x (3) Cheetah 15K HDDs LSI Express 500 (128MB cache) OCZ PowerStream 520W PSU ATI X850XT PE (Stock) DTEK WhiteWater + DTEK Custom Radiator Eheim 1250

11-28-2002, 08:35 PM	#16
Joe The Pro/Life Support System Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 4,041	Umm I would NOT disable messenger. There are many services in windows that rely on messenger to relay error messages and such. Simply block Port 137 - 139 on your router/firewall. They are sent via RPC and RPC rides on those ports. __________________ Joe - I only take this hat off for one thing... ProCooling archive curator and dusty skeleton.

11-28-2002, 10:21 PM	#17
jamicon Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 44	Whenever i go to a lan, i always type "net stop messenger" into CMD when i boot up at the last lan i went to, this program that changes who the message is from got out, well, needless to say, within the hour one guy was almost completly kicked out of the lan, as messages kept flying in the from "net send workgroup " while someone else was actually sending them !

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