RE: Windows Messenger Pop-up spam

[Steven Trewick <STrewick () joplings co uk>]

> I think that *most* major ISP's have now blocked ports 
> 135-139 and 445; inbound and outbound. 

For some local value of "most", I'm sure yours will differ from mine, 
since I use perhaps *the* largest ISP in my country (UK), and I
still get plenty of traffic on those ports.  Nor would I have it 
any other way, in fact should my ISP choose to block ports without
my permission I would be screaming about breach of contract.


> This is probably why there has been less windows messenger popups. 

Define "less".  Do you mean "users have seen less" or "spammers
have sent less" ?  I havent been counting them of late, but the
number that turn up at my LAN border are still significant
(or would be, if I was letting them through) 

I don't have a defintion for "significant", either ;-)
, but I can firm this up if needs be.


> Some people may have also gone into "services" and
> disabled the messenger service. 

Which will merely have lulled them into a false sense of security,
since the traffic is still making it to their IP stack. For windows
boxen, this is almost as good as "game over"










































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