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XP security leak?
Posted: 2003-01-04 06:20pm
by Specialist
http://www.imgmag.org/images/specialist/wMsg.JPG
Forced formatting removed. ~Dalton
I was just browsing this site and this message pops up. I know my mother has been logging into her bank account a few days ago but I usually use tracks eraser to clean cache files. So the real question is how serious is this? Could it be just a small problem advertisers are taking advantage of?
Posted: 2003-01-04 07:00pm
by phongn
It's the built-in messenger service, usually used for LANs. I usually firewall off the relevant ports (or you can shut down that service entirely, but I like having print queue messages).
Re: XP security leak?
Posted: 2003-01-05 02:39am
by Dalton
Specialist wrote:http://www.imgmag.org/images/specialist/wMsg.JPG
I was just browsing this site and this message pops up. I know my mother has been logging into her bank account a few days ago but I usually use tracks eraser to clean cache files. So the real question is how serious is this? Could it be just a small problem advertisers are taking advantage of?
You can relax, it's simply SPAM. Spammers are taking advantage of a utility built into Windows XP that sends messages to computers over a network (i.e. "Your document has printed") and spammers have found this useful since its default state is always enabled. You can turn it off if you want.
Posted: 2003-01-05 02:42am
by The Black Jesus
i'd recommend going to your computer management console and shutting down the relevant service
(i really need to move to linux soon)
Posted: 2003-01-05 02:52am
by Vertigo1
To turn this off, go into your admin panel and double-click on services. Scroll down to the listing called "Messenger". Right-click on it and select properties. Set it to disabled and click the stop button to kill the service. Then hit OK.
Thats it.
Posted: 2003-01-05 03:40am
by Einhander Sn0m4n
