Re: A new bug in csrss.exe ??

From: Guillaume (grs@mail.com)
Date: 11/14/02 

Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:53:14 +0100
From: Guillaume <grs@mail.com>

> This is the messenger service, not to be confused with MSN Messenger or
> Windows messenger. It's been in Windows a long time, most for network admin
> to notify clients of network problems. Only recently have spammers latched
> onto it.

Thanks for this pointer.

One thing remains to be explained though: how do "spammers" effectively
use this service?

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