Re: messenger service/IIS

From: Dajo Rybski ("Dajo)
Date: 04/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:37:03 +0200

You probably have netbios open to the internet.
Install a firewall. Even a free software firewall is beter than nothing.

"Peter Weitzner" <weitzner@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:006e01c30e7e$721569e0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> We have refrained from shutting off the "messenger"
> service on our server but continue to get advertising or
> spam like messages on our desktop from time to time. Is
> there any danger of local programs requiring this service
> or can we turn it off with no ill effects. This machine
> is purely a web server and does not need to communicate
> with other machines locally.
>
> Thanks for any insight into this problem.
>
> Peter

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