Re: Is this legal? Can this happen?

From: Adam (abernas@nyc.rr.com)
Date: 01/18/03 

From: "Adam" <abernas@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 16:07:34 GMT

It IS an exploitation of a service in the operating system.

I have set this service to "Manual" in Computer Management.

If someone can send you a message from an "untrusted" source without your permission, through the operating system, then Microsoft
should have a look into this.

Adam

"phoenix" <phoenix@fakeaddress.com> wrote in message news:1pkq60d7sqnx3$.p8khkfvdw0bu.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:46:49 GMT, Adam wrote:
>
> > It must be a hole in the WinNT based OS's:
> >
> > "only works on Windows 2000, NT and XP as it uses Windows Messenger as the delivery agent."
> >
> > So this is the new way in Spamming people? Getting in through Windows Messenger?
> >
> > If you need a firewall, then it is a hole...
> >
> >
> > "Dajo Rybski" <dronic (at) myrealbox.com> wrote in message news:3e2929c0$0$96757$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be...
> >> If you're getting messages like that it's not really because the holes in
> >> Microsoft Operating Systems but because the holes in your firewall. Make
> >> sure all Netbios traffic is disabled.
> >>
> >> Dajo Rybski
> >>
> >> "Mike Gagne" <MikeGagne@OrthoRX.NET> wrote in message
> >> news:670c01c2be93$1405ce70$d5f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA12...
> >>> That's funny, because I just posted a question about that
> >>> today in the General Forum. I had been getting these damn
> >>> message boxes all the time and I couldn't figure out why.
> >>> Must be thanks to the holes in Microsoft's Operating Systems.
> >>
> >>
>
> Hi
>
> It isn't a 'hole' it's a poorly configured users PC that's the problem. It
> actually uses the Messenger service not Windows Messenger - the two are
> different products. You don't actually need a firewall to stop it, it can
> be easily stopped, have a look here
> http://www.stopmessengerspam.com/index.html
>
> Regards
>
> Bill

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