Disable IP Messaging

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Darren Hughes

Is there a way to disable IP messaging in Windows 2000
without having a firewall?
 
Yep. When your smoke alarm goes off, you can either take out the batteries,
or go look for the fire. The former may leave you dead of smoke inhalation
sometime.

'Messenger spam', is not in itself harmful, but is symptomatic of a larger
problem - your computer/network has ports open from the Internet.

You can disable the Messenger service, but that is unwise as a solution as
you'll still have the underlying problem that caused you to get the messages
in the first place - consider the messages a useful warning that you have no
protection from the Internet.

For networks, I like www.sonicwall.com For a standalone machine, see
www.sygate.com for a free personal firewall. Not the greatest thing since
sliced bread, as you get what you pay for, but certainly better than
nothing.

See http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm for more info.
 
I guess if the client is that stubborn, you could offer to setup IPSec
policies for him for a couple hundred dollars, or offer to go pick up a $90
router with a firewall. If he accepts neither option, please give me his IP
address, and I will "white hat" hack his machine. Okay, not
really............... :]

Ray at work
 
In the meantime, run this on your computer:

for /l %i in (1,0,1) do net send HisIPAddress GET A FIREWALL.

Ray at work
 
Good luck. Mention the RPC Buffer Overflow exploit to this client...also
estimate how much time & money it will cost him to recover from a thoroughly
hacked network, and compare this to the cost of a simple firewall appliance
like this.

Firewalls alone aren't the answer - are no panacea. Systems need to be
patched, monitored, audited out the wazoo - but not having anything blocking
unauthorized traffic into your network is silly. :-)
 
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