Even MORE Windows Messenger spam
Oct 27, 2002 | Q

While I was at work yesterday, Shannon received another little bit of Windows Messenger spam on my desktop, demonstrating that I had not yet banished this annoyance from my home network. Luckily, there’s been even more progress in tracking down exactly how the messages are sent, and it turns out that I left one last itty bitty port open (UDP port 135).

Before adding a rule banning traffic on that port to my router, I checked the access list logs, and saw that more than 1,500 attempts had been made to send packets over the previously-banned ports. Is Windows Messenger spam becoming this popular?

Comments

You can do more than just block it, you can track them right to their IP address!

http://bactalk.rm-f.net

• Posted by: Third of Five on Dec 17, 2002, 9:01 PM
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