Enable Alerter?

[Carl]

Many years experience with a Mac, but new to Windows XP, which I am
using on my MacBook running VMWare Fusion 2.0.1

I found my way to Computer Management and as I began exploring there,
I found that under Services that Alerter was by default Disabled.

It notes that Alerter notifies selected users and computers of
administrative alerts and would *seem* to be a useful thing to have
enabled?

Am I wrong? Would wiser head say leave it disabled or enable it?

Many thanks,
Carl

 

[John John (MVP)]

Many years experience with a Mac, but new to Windows XP, which I am
using on my MacBook running VMWare Fusion 2.0.1

I found my way to Computer Management and as I began exploring there,
I found that under Services that Alerter was by default Disabled.

It notes that Alerter notifies selected users and computers of
administrative alerts and would *seem* to be a useful thing to have
enabled?

Am I wrong? Would wiser head say leave it disabled or enable it?

Unless you are planing on sending alerts to other computers on a network
leave it disabled. The Alerter service relies the Messenger service to
transmits alerts, for security reasons these services should be disabled.

John

 

[Carl]

Unless you are planing on sending alerts to other computers on a network
leave it disabled.  The Alerter service relies the Messenger service to
transmits alerts, for security reasons these services should be disabled.

John

Thanks very much for the clear answer, John.

Carl

 

[John John (MVP)]

Thanks very much for the clear answer, John.

You're welcome.

John