Re: FIX FOR MESSENGER POP UPS

From: Eric Warnke (albanyconsulting_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/07/03 

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 04:23:36 GMT

Bruce Chambers wrote:

> Greetings --
>
> Please stop posting potentially harmful advice. What are you, a
> hacker-wannabe? Why else would you be deliberately posting bad
> advice? Are you trying to give people a false sense of security by
> having them turn off what are, in effect, valid security warnings,
> while still leaving their PCs open to potential exploitation?
>
> Disabling the messenger service is a "head in the sand" approach
> to computer security.
>

Turning off unnecessary services *is* a legitimate approach to
security. Unless you are part of a workgroup where you need to
be able to messange a PC ( not a user ) there is little or no use
for this service. Alerts are still logged and seen by the user.
  Every open port on your PC is a waiting invitation for an
attack and a firewall is not always the answer.

I have not seen any legitimate message come though the messanger
service in years. If and when my smoke alarm starts using net
send to alert me that my house is burning down I'll switch it
back on. 

-- 
Eric Warnke   Personal and Business Solution
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