Recieving unwanted broadcast message

[rlamoreaux]

I installed a new W2K server and i'm getting some messages on sever saying like "contact joe@abc.com to make a million bucks". I'm connected to a lan but at this time IE6 is not up so this must be somesort of windows security issue. How can I block this in the future?

 

[Davetoo]

You'll have to stop the Messenger Service on the system to stop this from occuring.

Strange that it's getting past your firewall though, as I only get it when I'm testing from outside my network.

I'm Certifiable, not certified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[oblio3]

This article discusses how to solve this kind of problem:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/administration/communications/msgrspam.asp

Hope that helps,

Sam

 

[rlamoreaux]

Thanks Sam Thats a winner for me. Robert Lamoreaux