Ok, because of my first experience here:

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With this highly instrusive advertisement, and borrowing from spamarchive.org's idea, I'd like to give it a shot on archiving messenger service SPAM.

For now, if you have any snapshots stored, please send them to me via the link:

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Or directly email them to me:

paul@computercops.biz

I'll have a section up on this soon. Please feel free to advertise this to help make the DB grow.

That's a form of spam I haven't seen; I don't use messenger services much - the accounts I have go through Trillian (except the excellent Sonork client)- maybe that makes a difference?

Gordon

Actually, its not related to the Messenger IM Program, but to the Messenger Service that is installed on Windows OS.

Oops- total misunderstaning on my part

Its a good thing to in a way... So that means you haven't gotten any. And hopefully we can train others to disable that kind of access too.

I posted a question about disabling windows messenger a while ago after my first run with these. What I didn't mention was how hard it was to track the real source. I don't have a snort rule that flags it. I didn't find it in Sygate Logs and I had Packet Level logging enabled. It coulda been there but I was unable to pick it out even though I at the time looked immediately. I've long since disabled the service. But I don't like this breed of advertising and I think there should be a list of companies who use it so we can boycott their products and services. Maybe even track down parent companies and let them know how we feel about this kind of advertising.

Welcome to the new millenium heh?

~Peter

Click Start->Setings -> Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services
Scroll down and highlight "Messenger"
Right-click the highlighted line and choose Properties.
Click the STOP button.
Select Disable or Manual in the Startup Type scroll bar
Click OK

Rather than disable the service, is there no way to log these events? It's amazing MS provides now way to do this.

There is actually a way to take out messenger in WIndows.

- locate the file "sysoc.inf" and edit it in NOTEPAD.
- locate the line that says:

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7
turn it to

msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7

- now reboot your system.
- go to CONTROL PANELS - ADD REMOVE PROG. - you should see Messenger there. Now take it off.

Actually I forgot to mention that you can find the ADD/REMOVE WIndows MEssenger under ADD/REMOVE WINDOWS COMPONENTS section.