Greetings --
This is *NOT* a fix.
Please do not post 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.
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 your only advice, however
well-intended (if it was well-intended), was to turn off the warnings.
How is this helpful?
Equivalent Scenario: 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, short of disconnecting it from
the Internet, is to install and *properly* configure a firewall; just
installing one and letting its default settings handle things is often
not good enough. 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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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on
having both at once. -- RAH
