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Old 08-31-2003, 11:44 PM   #3 (permalink)
Silvy
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The messages are sent using the messenger program built into MS Windows.

This site has a little explanation and a small guide to get rid of the problem:
click here

For those that don't like links: one way seems to be to block port 135 in your firewall.

(other ways are stated in the article)

I hope this helps you!
If you still have problems, please post them here...

Silvy

Disclaimer: I don't have any such problems and have thus not tried any of these workarounds.

EDIT: There is no need for them to spread virus-like programs AFAIK, they can just send those messages directly from their systems to your PC. The messenger is probably meant as a way a system-administrator can send all machines on the company network a message (like "Network going down in 5 mins"). Too bad MS Windows allows such messages to come from across the world, without an easy way to block them...
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