Unfortunatly I am a victim of Messanger Services SPAM. The kind company who managed to target me is called ByeByeAds. If you wish to find out about their new scam, go to their webpage at ByeByeAds This company simply makes you pay to get rid of their spam!!

Anyway, I'm not here to discuss this indervidual company, I'm trying to find a solution to this form of spam. I've done some quick research and i've found many companines will soon be using the Messanger Services for spam. If you are a victim, you're really going to no about it. It has to be the most annoying form of spam i've come across!

I've found various solutions to this, but none of which i'm willing to use. Solutions like, disabled the messanger services, The messanger services is a handy services I dont want to disable it because of some money hungry company! If I disabled the services anything that wishes to use this services will log a error message in my system event log. Software such as anti virus software uses the messanger services to send you notices and alerts! so, whats the point in having a virus applications if your going to block the alerts! There are various applications that use the messanger services, which makes disabling it a defernate no no.

Other sources say we should configure our firewalls to block netbios and RPC, I'm sure i recall a post floating around saying that we shouldnt block RPC, so again, a un-vaild solution.

One possible soultion I have quoted bellow:
This particular spam engine starts with a connection to port 135 rather than the NetBIOS ports (137-139 and 445) and then connects to a port above 1024 but future spam engines could use the NetBIOS ports as well.
It looks like the other solutions are not acceptable, but what i'm wondering is, is it okay to block port 135?

Some specs that you may need to know
OS: windows xp
Firewall: zone alarm (up to date)

If anyone can help, it will be very appreciated. And If it is simply solved by blocking ports could someone please explain how to do this using Zone alarm, as I have never had to do this before.

Thanks