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Microsoft shoots the Windows Messenger | |
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| Time: 07:56 EST/12:56 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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Microsoft is to disable Windows Messenger and will activate Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) by default on XP boxes, in a move to better shield Windows PCs against hostile attack. Windows Messenger, a function used to exchange data between computers unrelated to MSN Messenger, has become more trouble than its worth in recent months since spammers latched onto the service as a way of launching pop-up spam boxes on targeted PCs. The service was also subject to a security flaw this month which created a mechanism for crackers to commandeer vulnerable Windows boxes. Microsoft has issued a patch but even so, the problem is another black mark against a not terribly useful service. | ||
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| #1 By 3 (62.253.128.7) at 10/29/2003 7:57:50 AM |
| about time |
| #2 By 2960 (156.80.64.137) at 10/29/2003 10:59:38 AM |
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#3 is correct. The proper term is "Messenger Service". Though I agree it was terribly named from the start.
Steve Gibson has written a great little utility for managing this service called "Shoot The Messenger". It's great if you have to support thousands of people and are tired of walking them through the Management MMC and services manually. www.grc.com TL |
| #3 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 10/29/2003 2:56:50 PM |
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Steve Gibson likes to toot his own horn a lot and comes up with complicated answers to easy questions.
Save this as DisableMessengerService.vbs and then execute either by double clicking or with cscript from the command line. You must have local admin rights. strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colListOfServices = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Service Where Name = 'Messenger'") For Each objService in colListOfServices objService.StopService() objService.ChangeStartMode( "Disabled") Next I'll leave it as an excercise to the reader to figure out how to obtain a list of computer names in the domain and iterate through that list populating strComputer as necessary. Oh yeah, for those of you not familiar with the concept... This is a script written in VBScript that uses WSH and WMI to disable the Messenger service. If you're not familiar with WSH or WMI and you manage a Windows domain, you should go buy a book and read up. This post was edited by sodablue on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 at 15:00. |
| #4 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 10/29/2003 3:03:38 PM |
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Here's a good WSH/WMI/ADSI/everything resource...
http://desktopengineer.com/ Speaking of which, that led me to the Win2003 resource kit: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en Anybody tried cdburn.exe on an XP machine? |
| #5 By 6253 (24.1.206.27) at 10/29/2003 9:28:21 PM |
| soda, cdburn.exe works fine on an XP machine as long as you don't run anything else at the same time, because it doesn't support any buffer-underrun protection. |
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