Okay, I haven't found a good answer to this online and would appreciate
any advice this group has... Our servers are being deluged with Admin
Alert Spam's. At a certain point, particularly over a weekend, with no
one actively looking at the machine, if there are enough messages it can
cause some services to shut down. I read that blocking ports 137-139
would stop these messages, but I did that in our firewall and yet the
messages still came.

I'm wondering:
1) If I disable the messenger service on the server, could there be any
bad ramifications of that, other than potentially not receiving
legitimate messages about system shutdowns etc.? Also, would that stop
the problem?
2) Is there some other way to stop these messages? Are they coming in on
another port etc.?

Any help on this would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,

Ed Sunder
Three HD

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