Re: Is this legal? Can this happen?

From: Dajo Rybski ("Dajo)
Date: 01/18/03 

From: "Dajo Rybski" <dronic (at) myrealbox.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:17:43 +0100

If you're getting messages like that it's not really because the holes in
Microsoft Operating Systems but because the holes in your firewall. Make
sure all Netbios traffic is disabled.

Dajo Rybski

"Mike Gagne" <MikeGagne@OrthoRX.NET> wrote in message
news:670c01c2be93$1405ce70$d5f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA12...
> That's funny, because I just posted a question about that
> today in the General Forum. I had been getting these damn
> message boxes all the time and I couldn't figure out why.
> Must be thanks to the holes in Microsoft's Operating Systems.

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