Re: zone alarm alerts to messenger and ICMP

From: Duane Arnold (notme_at_notme.com)
Date: 08/19/03 

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:19:32 GMT

"sandra" <unlistemail@thanks.com> wrote in
news:vk2p0dc80ba8c7@corp.supernews.com:

> Using zone alarm pro, I get a constant incoming alert from ICMP and
> then 'messenger' alternating. I dont use messenger and have never
> signed into it. I wouldnt mind taking it off my computer but dont see
> it in add/remove programs to uninstall. I'm assuming 'messenger' is ms
> version and not yahoo which I do have installed. Going into msconfig,
> I thought I could disable the alert by unchecking messenger in
> 'services'.
>
> Helpful advice on this appreciated. I'm thinking it probably is
> slowing down my computer with this constant alert action. If not, I
> could ignore it I guess. I don't have it pop-up alert in any case but
> the report file gets long with this constant action.
>
> sandra
>
>
>

How do you know that MSN is not being used? Maybe, something like a worm
is using it and you don't know about it.

You can use Active Ports (free) and *look* around, and if you see
something, you can terminate it.

http://www.protect-me.com/freeware.html

Duane :) 

-- 
The protection of the machine is a process and not a given!

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