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anyone who doesn't have the windows messanger service disabled or fire-walled. gets huge piles of messenger spam so it will look just like more messanger spam to those people. joelja On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS wrote: > > Some cable user's machine running default-configured MS apps > is sending Paul dynamic DNS queries that it shouldn't, > because somehow it's decided he's got an interesting destination > (I'm guessing f.root-servers.net ?) > Paul wants the user to get an error popup about it. > > Well, default-configured Microsoft applications have an > application that lets you send a machine popup dialog boxes; > it's been discussed here recently because spammers abuse it > and (related discussion) it uses Port 135, so it might or > might not be blocked by Comcast.net. So the obvious thing > to do is find whichever program it is you use to send those > messages, and start sending popups, guessing that it might not be blocked. > The user's unlikely to have a clue what to do about them, > but if you include a URL, you may get their attention. > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting [email protected] GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
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