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by daddydold52 Oct 9, 2002 last reply Oct 17, 2002

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The last Week or so, I have been receiving mail in a window called "Messenger Service" directly to my I.P. address. I initially thought this might be a worm of some kind, so I ran a virus scan using McAfee, with the latest dat file available, but Itturned up nothing. Any ideas on where this is coming from? Thanks...

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by dklippert Oct 9, 2002

This is the MSN Messenger Service.
Here is some more information:

http://tinyurl.com/1w52

by daddydold52 Oct 17, 2002

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by ann777 Oct 9, 2002

Are you talking about the little box that comes up when someone sends a "net send" message? Do you know your computername?

Tyr sending a message to yourself by going to a Command (or MS-DOS) prompt and typing in the following:

net send computername hi

You should then get a box comming up that says "Messenger Service" and then below it.... "Message from computername to computername on date time" and then the next line should say "hi"

That's a "net send" command and it comes from Windows. In the message box, it should give you the computername of the sender.

If you are receiving e-mail in this window, then someone is piping e-mail to you through a "net send" statement-- which is a rather odd way to send mail. Net send is usually for quick brief messages, such as "pickup the phone, it's me" or "meeting in 5 minutes in room x" or whatever from someone else in the office needing something (and knowing how to use the net send command).