Re: Messeger service

From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 01/30/03


From: "Karl Levinson [x y] mvp" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:17:43 -0500


... and use a firewall, even a free one like www.kerio.com, www.agnitum.com,
etc. The popups are the least of your security problems, you're letting
netbios traffic travel between your network and the internet.

http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#pop-ups
http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#firewall
http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#harden

"Keith W. McCammon" <km@km.com> wrote in message
news:uQqsSZIyCHA.440@TK2MSFTNGP12...
> Stop the messenger service.
>
> "Yemi" <worku@theologicalcollege.org> wrote in message
> news:05f301c2c886$05910c40$8af82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA03...
> > Each time i start up the machine i get annoying messages
> > that pop up on my screen. how do i get rid of them.
> > thanks
>
>

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