I've recently upgraded to Win XP Home and have this annoying little problem. A little message box titled "Messenger Service" keeps popping up when I am on-line. I have a picture to show with it on, but can't upload. Anyone know about this and how to stop it as it's really bugging me and my sister as she's got this problem on her laptop.
Cheers! -AK
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It should be related to Outlook, that much I can say. Maybe some preference in Outlook or the messenger-part of "Internet Options" has some feature or box to be disabled/unchecked.
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Charles Capps
We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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Get ZoneAlarm, and don't let them convince you the payware one is better, because it isn't.
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-------------------- Picard: Mr. Crusher, what's our maximum speed this week? Wesley: [checking manual] Uh, 9.4, sir. Picard: Very good. Take us to Warp 9.8 then. Wesley: Aye, sir. Warp 9.2 it is.
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Charles Capps
We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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I bet you didn't even bother looking at ZoneAlarm, did you? When your system gets its ass hacked, don't come crying here and expecting sympathy...
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I know this isn't totally on topic - but security was mentioned... i've just got ADSL - and I'm sick of trying to download the last four episodes of Enterprise over Kazaa - so I'm trying bittorrent. Is this safe to use?
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quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: I know this isn't totally on topic - but security was mentioned... i've just got ADSL - and I'm sick of trying to download the last four episodes of Enterprise over Kazaa - so I'm trying bittorrent. Is this safe to use?
For Goodness sakes NO - you might actually get them!
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Charles Capps
We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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Norton sucks ten levels of ass. If it was doing its job properly, no systems would be allowed to contact the Messenger Service on your system in the first place.
The ONLY things Norton makes nowadays that don't blow dead bear are Ghost and the AntiVirus package.
Their "firewall" does nothing that switching to ZoneAlarm (free) and Firefox (free) won't protect you from anyway.
Registered: Mar 1999
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I have ZoneAlarm installed in my laptop and I love it. Talk about helping control freaks become more controling. But what is Firefox? Is it another firewall program?
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Registered: May 1999
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I have Bullguard (paid-for) and it has killed every diseased mail and popup for six months now, and it doesn't talk to Messenger, nor does it drain memory or screw up gaming.
At my office we use F-Secure, very effective but it is too expensive as a single-license for me to want to get at home, it's not worth it.
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Anyone know about this and how to stop it as it's really bugging me and my sister as she's got this problem on her laptop.![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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