Re: Windows Messenger Pop-up spam

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2004-11-30 Beauford, Jason wrote:
> On 2004-11-29 Seth Jackson wrote:
> > Yup good ole meesenger popups are still out there.
> > If messenger service is running you can still get the popups. Just
> > turn the meesenger service off (not the windwos messenger the
> > messenger service located in Control Panel->Administrative
> > tools->Services).
> > I have Norton Internet Security 2003 and I still got the popups until
> > I turned messenger off.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=330904
>
> Block those Ports!

*sigh*

Why? Simply disable the stupid messenger service (because obviously it's
not needed anyway). There's no need to block any port because of
messenger spam.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
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