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New Spam Masquerades As Admin Alerts
from the not-good dept
Wired has an article about the latest spammer technique to use a setup in Windows that allows for administrators to send pop up messages to users, send unwanted spam popups. The company that creates the product that lets spammers do this says it's been a huge success. Basically, though, it's just a security hole that should be blocked off, but which (of course) Microsoft seems to leave open by default. The folks who make the spamming software, and outfit called DirectAdvertiser.com, sound positively gleeful over the fact that they can get around normal procedures to block messages. They also suggest that it's a "good alternative" to regular spam since this is legal. I wonder if this could be considered hacking into a computer, though, which would make it significantly less than legal.
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Legal?
It was easy to close. We simply opened the services manager and disabled the messenger service.
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These scumbags are hitting Port 135.
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