Author Topic: ok, one more time for the guy who wasn't paying attention (Read 284 times)

capt. apathy · « **on:** April 23, 2003, 04:12:12 PM »

I know I've seen this come up a bunch of times. but since it wasn't a problem for me I wasn't paying attention.

it's those damn pop-ups. not the ones that apear when you open webpages but the ones that come completely out of the blue while you aren't even using your net conection. they seem to get top priority by my system, as they will stop anything else I'm doing so they can pop to the top.

they suck, is there anything you can do about them?

seems like some sort of spam law would apply here. when you get a spam e-mail they have to give you a link to get off their list but these don't give you that and the don't even require you to be in a program that excepts msgs (e-mail, icq). these seem much more harrassing than 50 peices of trash e-mail to be deleted

Chairboy · « **Reply #1 on:** April 23, 2003, 04:18:00 PM »

Unfortunately, there are no spam laws right now. Some people are trying to pass some, and some are trying to get the courts to extend the 'junk fax' laws to cover spam, but for now spam is legal.

To fix your problem, it depends on your operating system. If you are running Windows XP, 2000 or NT, for example, you can stop those popups by going to control panels, services, and finding the 'Messenger' service and setting it to disabled (and set to _not_ run on startup). This is unrelated to MSN Messenger, fyi.

The people are sending the messages to you using the NET SEND command, something in the OS for big businesses to use to send alerts to workstations (like, 'printer out of paper' or 'server blahblah is going down in 5 minutes'). You can see this in action by typing in a DOS prompt:

NET SEND 155.10.5.5 "This is the FBI! Freeze, sucker!"

Change the 155.10.5.5 to be the IP address of another computer on your network (or some friends IP address) and it should show up there if the MESSENGER service is running.

Tarmac · « **Reply #2 on:** April 23, 2003, 04:36:48 PM »

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=76434

I think ammo had the same problem you're having. Pretty much everything was suggested in this thread. Hopefully one of these can help you out.

capt. apathy · « **Reply #3 on:** April 23, 2003, 05:09:05 PM »

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 24, 2003, 01:41:35 AM »

The net send command is a fun one to use. When I was in college I sent a message to a friend's Win2k machine while he was working on a big project that said something like: "Unrecoverable system error! All data has been lost. Press OK to reboot the system." (If you have seen a messenger service pop up you'd know it only has an OK button. ) The look on his face was priceless.