Messenger Service Spam

From: Andrew (andrewb@nospam.avidityhcs.com)
Date: 04/10/03 

From: "Andrew" <andrewb@nospam.avidityhcs.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:54:54 -0700

I was under the impression that to block spammers from
sending messages using the messenger service, all I needed
to do was block the appropriate NetBIOS UDP ports on the
router, as well as port 445. After doing that, our
network is still receiving pop-up messages via the
messenger service. Do spammers have other ways of getting
around this? Thanks.

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