Re: Net popups

From: C.D. (gmaster@-spamremove-infomaniak.ch)
Date: 11/29/02


From: C.D. <gmaster@-spamremove-infomaniak.ch>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:02:01 +0100

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:12:50 -0400, "Jesus Chipia"
<jchipia@brandinstitute.com> wrote:

>Can anyone help me?
>I'm getting net send popus in one of our offices network, how can block this
>types of attacks?
>
>(I'm using Windows 2000 server multihomes computers)
>
>Thanks
>
>Lonely ranger.
>

from a command line type :

net stop messenger

It will prevent the annoying popus to come out from "nowhere".

Anyway the best method to stop this is to read the sender adress in
the popup, then going to the sender host and ....do your
administrative stuff.