hh said:
Does anyone know how to disable NET SEND without stopping
Messenger Services ?? Thanks
I think disabling the Messenger service prevents you from receiving
messages, but you
can still send them. Aside from disabling the messenger service, there is
no way to
prevent people from receiving messages 100% of the time. However, there are
some
things you can do to make it difficult. You prevent them from using things
like the command prompt and Start/Run using group policies.
You can try using a DOSKEY macro to redefine the NET command (make sure you
do one for "net" and one for "net.exe"). There are several ways to do this,
something
like this will only allow them to map drives, nothing else:
Doskey.exe Net=If /i "$1" EQU "Use" Net.exe Use $2 $3 $4 $5
Doskey.exe Net.exe=If /i "$1" EQU "Use" Net.exe Use $2 $3 $4 $5
Keep in mind that "net send" isn't the only way to send messages, so even if
you prevent them from using that command there's always going to be some way
to send messages from other downloaded tools, but most people won't know
how to do this.