New spam tool
 

Beware everyone there is a new spam tool out :mad:. Check the pic.

Grrrr
 

*kicks the spamming jackass programmer, then hotglues a bunch of ads to his naked body and shoves him into a wood chipper*

Spammers deserve to die
 

http://www.ianai.net/jokes/forumpix/spamsign.jpg

Ya I have gotten several of those to even 1 claiming to be from my cable internet providor. Do you have a firewall? I have installed one since & haven't had that problem anymore.

I never had those ads And I have a firewall/router. If they find a way around it, I will just reconfigure My router to stop it. I am sure there will be program that will be made to block them.

Yea this was an annoying issue for me so I looked it up in Windows Tech base and found something to get rid of them for good and it doens't require a firewall. Just simply remove them by stopping the service that they are using to spam you.

It's called Messenger and resides in your C:\WINNT\System32\services.exe

You can disable it by going to your My Computer Icon "right click"
select "Manage" then go under Services and Applications and double click or expand it then select Services and scroll down the right pane window to Messenger, right click it and select properties.

http://users.adelphia.net/~abblepc/messenger_spam.jpg

For the Startup type drop down the arrow and select Disabled.
This will stop it from loading the next time you boot your PC.
You don't need it unless you are part of a network that normally sends out admin messages to clients on the network.

This is just a built in tool used by admins and was incorporated by M$ to enable easier messaging to clients on Lan's or Wan's. Since then it was easilly exploited to send messages to PC users that have Win 2K & XP.

So the instructions I listed above are for XP and Win 2K.

Edit: Damn I hate when admins disable image posting...........:mad:

Nice work AbblePC. I beleve the exploit is using a user Client side command to post the message, not a service. but I cold be wrong.

Yep nice job. However I would still recommend you run a firewall to stop any hackers from getting access to your computer.

WOW!!!!!!! where did you DL that from!???!?!?! LOL!!!!! Jk any way that sucks

yeah a simmiler message showed up on my pc i was preety freaked out lol

It's not a program... You can do it through telnet or netstat... Real easy and simple... But Annoying to get rid of it for different OS read below....

Disabling the Messenger Service
To remove the ability for anyone in the world to pop up messages on your computer, you can disable the Messenger service. Its easy to reverse at a later time if you wish to do so.



Windows 2000
Click Start-> Programs-> Administrative Tools->Services
Scroll down and highlight "Messenger"
Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.
Click the STOP button.
Select Disable or Manual in the Startup Type scroll bar
Click OK


Windows XP
Click Start->Control Panel
Click Performance and Maintenance
Click Administrative Tools
Double click Services Scroll
down and highlight "Messenger"
Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.
Click the STOP button.
Select Disable or Manual in the Startup Type scroll bar
Click OK


Windows NT
Click Start ->Control Panel
Double Click Administrative Tools
Select Services-> Double-click on Messenger
In the Messenger Properties window, select Stop,
Then choose Disable as the Startup Type
Click OK

Windows 98 & ME
Windows Messenger Service cannot be disabled