help turn ON messenger (net send) after disabled

[Guest]

My company used in the past windows messenger serive. But as a result of various virus attacks my company has installed multiple firewall installations one of which disabled the messenger (net send) service. Without starting the messenger service company wide is it possible to start this service on only a few workstations? From what I can tell the svchost.exe determines whether this service is started. Can this file be modified and relocated somewhere else that is NOT write protected and be assigned under cmd tasklist? Without having administrative rights I am unable to simply start this service on my local C: drive.

 

[Roger Abell]

This needs to be started as a service, and may be so done
selectively on a specifc set of machines.
The permissions require an admin account to start this
service, but that likely could be adjusted, such as with
the SetACL third-party utility. Changing permissions on
a service with what ships with the OS is rather involved.
http://setacl.sourceforge.net/
--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA

My company used in the past windows messenger serive. But as a result of

various virus attacks my company has installed multiple firewall
installations one of which disabled the messenger (net send) service.
Without starting the messenger service company wide is it possible to start
this service on only a few workstations? From what I can tell the
svchost.exe determines whether this service is started. Can this file be
modified and relocated somewhere else that is NOT write protected and be
assigned under cmd tasklist? Without having administrative rights I am
unable to simply start this service on my local C: drive.