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Send popup messages to Windows users
Authored by: yellow on Dec 11, '03 12:31:12PM

From the smbclient man page:
"If the receiving computer is running WinPopup the user will receive the message and probably a beep. If they are not running WinPopup the message will be lost, and no error message will occur."

I take this to mean that if the Windows box is 'hardened', then this won't work for you.



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Send popup messages to Windows users
Authored by: gbennett on Dec 11, '03 12:57:15PM

How/Does this work with XP?



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Send popup messages to Windows users
Authored by: djn1 on Dec 11, '03 01:28:49PM

I just tested it with an XP box and it works fine.



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Send popup messages to Windows users
Authored by: osxpounder on Dec 11, '03 04:54:12PM

For example, if you were trying to message my PCs, I'd never know, because I always disable the Windows messaging service nowadays -- I've never seen it used legitimately, but I have been spammed with popups. If I saw a service that even looked like "WinPopUp" running on my Windoze box, I'd stop that service. I guess these messages we're sending rely on one of those two services.....

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Send popup messages to Windows users
Authored by: crarko on Dec 11, '03 11:03:39PM

Yup, the wise person disables this stuff almost without thinking twice these days. Pity, too, since some of these services used to be good for something at one point.

When I set up my personal XP system a year ago it only took about 45 minutes before being spammed through the messenger service for the first (and last) time.



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