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RE: Using Messenger Service for 'Net Send' Functionality --- Dangerous? Why? Jun 11 2005 12:09PM
Rasmus Rønlev (rr it cbs dk)
Hi Brian,

If just for the potential spam - there's also been viruses abusing the open
messenger port - I wouldn't let the service be wide open to anyone to write
to. However at least with Windows XP SP2 you can rather easily deploy some
firewall settings, which would allow you to block incoming tra...

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