Re: Pop ups 3rd Party Advertisment

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers_at_nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 07/18/03 

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 22:02:32 -0600

Greetings --

    I do wish you would stop posting potentially harmful advice.
Disabling the messenger service is a "head in the sand" approach to
computer security.

    The real problem is _not_ the messenger service pop-ups; they're
actually providing a useful service by acting as a security alert. The
true problem is the unsecured computer, and you're only
advice, however well-intended, was to turn off the warnings. How is
this helpful?

    Equivalent Scenario 1: Somewhere in a house, a small fire starts,
and sets off the smoke alarm. The home-owner, not immediately seeing
any fire/smoke, complains about the noise of the smoke detector, so
you tell him to remove the smoke detector's battery and go back to
sleep, or whatever else he was doing.

    Equivalent Scenario 2: You over-exert your shoulder at work or
play, causing bursitis. After weeks of annoying and sometimes
excruciating pain whenever you try to reach over your head, you go to
a doctor and say, while demonstrating the motion, "Doc, it hurts when
I do this." The doctor, being as helpful as you are, replies, "Well,
don't do that."

    The only true way to secure the PC is to *properly* configure the
firewall; just installing one and letting it's default settings handle
things is no good. Unfortunately, this does require one to learn a
little bit more about using a computer than used to be necessary.

Bruce Chambers 

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"Ian" <iemurray@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Need help preventing 3rd Party advertisment, while on
> line.
> >.
> >The solution below disables Windows messenger service
> which is how these pop up's arrive
>
> It does not work is 98 or ME as you cannot disable
> Messenger Service
>
> click start-control panei
> click admin tools
> click component services
> double click services local
> double click messenger to bring up the options panel
> double click the highlighted panel and choose properties
> click the stop button
> select disabled or manual on the start up type drop down
> menu
> click Ok
>
> Ian