Messenger Spam
Ever since I got my DSL broadband installed at home, there are spam coming and pop-up as normal message box. It never show up as I was doing something, mostly when I didn't off the PC and came back from work, something as following show up:
What the heck?! A simple click to let it go away as I first seeing it. It come more and more recently, then I start paying attention to what "it" said. Realizing it's sort of spam via Windows default messenging service, I have to say spam is really everywhere. They tried as hard as they could and never give up. But what's wrong with their mind, don't they do some marketing? As the example above, sending some IP located in Malaysia and offer property renting?! Come on, use your brain, spammer. May the bad luck always with you!
My home PC running WinXP Pro, disable the Messenger service at Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services and change its Startup Type to manual could solve the problem. Well, I never need to type "net send somebody" in order to communicate with someone at home :).
April 18, 2003 12:10 AM | Computing
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