Re: msn messenger hack

From: Thomas Foster (tbonius@section6.net)
Date: 10/30/02 

From: "Thomas Foster" <tbonius@section6.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:51:23 -0800

Hi Corant,

This pop-up window is actually from a service that runs on your computer
itself. It is called the Windows Messaging Service. This service allows
computers to be sent messages across the network from System Administrators
or Network Providers.

This is different from the MSN messenger program that you use to chat with
people across the internet.

To see an example of this service.. try the following steps:

Open a command prompt window (cmd.exe) and type this command

net send (computername) "message"

Where (computername) would be the name you gave your Windows computer and
"message" would be the actual message you want to send to that computer.

net send localhost "This is a test message"

would pop up the same Messenger window on your own computer as depicted in
your attached picture with a message body of "This is a test message".

You can disable this service so that annoying spammers do not target your
computer with random pop-up messages.

Simply right click on the "My Computer" icon and go to the "Manage" option

Open the "Services and Application" tree option at the bottom of your
"Computer Management" window

Under the "Services" option, there will be a service on the right listed
called "Messenger Service"

Right click on the service icon and choose the "Prperties" option, then
change the startup type to "Disabled" and then click the "Stop" button to
stop the service.

This will stop the Messenger Service keep it from automatically starting up
every time you reboot your computer.

There is more informtaion on the "Messenger Service" in the following
Microsoft KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q168893

Hope this helps..

Thom
"Corant1" <corant1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0c9901c27f74$8e4b5230$2ae2c90a@phx.gbl...
> yes I did see the other section of posts concerning this
> subject this morning after I sat down and was greated by
> a pop up first thing in the morning.......
>
> whether or not it is a msn messenger problem or not in
> origin the person(s) who are using the pop up are
> claiming that it is used in conjunction with msn messenger
> (see pic)...
>
> now since there is no apparent interest from msn in
> either helping or at least feigning interest the spam
> attacks will increase and since they claim msn is the
> gateway then msn can expect to be considered an obliging
> allie to them, in most victims perception...it is just
> common sense to not have your product associated with a
> hack/spam tool....
>
> anyway I will check the site recommended ....thanks all...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >this has been popping up on my desktop for around a week
> >and this is the first time it has identified itself as
> >what it involves.....it seems to run in conjunction
> >with "CSRSS.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\CSRSS.exe" in
> >my computer ...after some checking I found that I am
> >apparently helpless to this abuse of a system bug
> >accessed through msn messenger.....
> >
> >ex:.....http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/
> c
> >srss-backspace-bug.html
> >
> >the above site and several others all agree that there
> is
> >not much to be done and up until now no one had used
> >it....well now someone has....
> >
> >any information on this would be greatly appreciated as
> >well as where exactly at msn I can email to report this
> >individual.......