Re: Source of Windows PopUp SPAM

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

Michael Katz <mike () procinct com> replied to Ron Trenka:

> > Anyone have a way to disable this on W2K and NT 4.0 servers?
>
> Stop and disable the Messenger service.

That will certainly do it but may remove other "useful" functionality 
that depends on the Messenger service for delivering system alerts 
(AV software, various system monitoring/alerting tools, etc).

If you'd rather keep (some of) that functionality, read the end of 
the following page (a really good link originally posted by Gary 
Flynn) where binding services to specific interfaces is described:

   http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/breves/min_srv_res_win.en.html


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Nick FitzGerald
Computer Virus Consulting Ltd.
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