Re: Messenger Service

From: Gary (garywilliams_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 07/09/03 

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:35:25 -0700

I have norton firewall installed and enabled. Perhaps I
need to look at that. Thanks for all your support.

Gary
>-----Original Message-----
>You need a firewall. This is 'messenger spam', and is
not in itself harmful,
>but is symptomatic of a larger problem - your compter is
entirely exposed to
>the Internet. You can disable the Messenger service, but
you'll still have
>the underlying problem that caused you to get spam. For
a standalone
>machine, see www.sygate.com for a free personal firewall.
>
>See http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm for more info.
>
>MJR wrote:
>> I keep getting popups in a box marked Messenger Service
>> that are endless loops.
>>
>> I have 2 popup blockers that work well for other popups
>> but I have no luck with stopping these popups.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggustions for stopping these?
>>
>> Mark
>
>
>.
>

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