Net send will only work locally unless someone has opened their world
to you and is authenticated there.
-paris
[finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present]
[connecting people, places and things]
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:26:14 -0400
Subject: RE: Total Fix For Code Red
> > Yes, but if they don't know they have code red and there machine
> > is unpatched, I would imagine the admin is some home user that
> > got a cd from of nt server and doesn't have a clue how to properly
> > configure and secure there box. So for the people that are still
> > infected they have every service known to man running and probably
> > won't even know what to do to correct the situation, once notified!
>
> > Now because of these morons we can't run a small personal web site,
> > since all high speed connections will start to shut down incoming
> > port 80. So far mine is still up, but not sure for how much longer
> > since my logs have tons of cable users requesting default.ida!
> >
> > Syntax : net send xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx "some msg here"
>
> While home users typically haven't patched their computers
> appropriately,
> and may be running web and other services without knowing it, there's
> still
> a problem with notifying them via net send - to the best of my
> knowledge,
> the default Windows 2000 install doesn't accept messages from users
> unless
> they've authenticated. My guess is that this is also true in Windows
> ME.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
>
>
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