Windows Messenger Service

[GC74]

How can use the Window Messenger Service to send users over your network customized messages?? Ya know, things like...Please, restart your PC now.....Your whatever is now working again....Stop playing Solitaire and go back to work...

Thanx!!!

[silencio]

Open a dos box and type

net send ?

[Radical Dreamer]

the proper syntax is

in dosbox, or from run

net send xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Blahblah blah
or
net send compname blah blah

[PeLiGrOsO]

RADICAL hit it on the spot.. that will be the easiest you can do over the network..

good luck

[clarinathan]

Why do I keep getting these over the internet.
Dodgy porn etc??

I have a firewall and it is set to block all ports except ones i specifically open???

[gtiseb]

That would be the form of spam. The best way to stop it is to disable the Messenger service if you don't need it. It's also a security hole. I use it only in a corporate environement that's behind a real firewall.

[Noahvail]

I know by monitoring UDP on port 135 I can get the IP address the Messenger spam came from.

I would pay money for an app that would monitor that port and autorespond to any Messenger spam (as many times as I want).

True justice would be served if it could be distributed as freeware. :)

Any Ideas?

NV

[Spawn_X]

Won't the messages only go through to Win NT, 2000, XP systems......?

[Ya_know]

Originally posted by Spawn_X
Won't the messages only go through to Win NT, 2000, XP systems......?
Correct.

[FatalException0E]

Originally posted by Spawn_X
Won't the messages only go through to Win NT, 2000, XP systems......?
I thought that's been around on every networkable MS OS since the days of networking in DOS.

[Radical Dreamer]

Originally posted by FatalException0E
I thought that's been around on every networkable MS OS since the days of networking in DOS.

I think you are thinking of the app that win9x had that was very similar, called winpopup

[GokuSS2]

net send * (your message)

*=all (will only work if on same Domain or Workgroup)