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Indeed, that does cover it fairly well.
Recall that XP has a firewall built in...
If you have a router, you are immune to these problems (NetBIOS, direct connections, etc.) as your router will not facilitate them unless you specify for it to do so...
Windows 2000 has fairly good security layers, and I don't see many problems with it in terms of "hack" attempts or viruses, and what have you... but that's not a for sure.
As discussed in previous threads, a decent software firewall will do the trick, although I find them inhibiting -- so I prefer a physical solution (ie. a physical firewall, or a router).
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This question is for avayanovice........
if I go to msconfig, then startup and uncheck messenger isnt this gonna stop the spam messenges???????
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That is actually for MSN Messenger, which is probably fine if it's up to date.
Windows Messenger is the one with annoying pop-ups. To disable this, it's in Control Panel > Administrative Tools, right click on messenger and select properties and in the little drop down select disable, then click on the stop button and OK.
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I don't find a "messenger" in my Administrative Tools ![[Linked Image from sundance-communications.com]](https://www.sundance-communications.com/forum/confused.gif) Maybe because I'm running 2000??
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oops :P
after Administrative Tools, click on services. you should see a messenger service in there. you can also uncheck this under the Service tab in msconfig if you have Win XP.
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that seemed to work...thanks
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MSConfig is going (which is part of the 9X/ME distributions) to give you startup options... messenger being MSN messenger, as bullcube said.
The Windows Messaging Service allows (in theory) messages to systems in a network setting. A lot of windows services use messaging to alert a user of a particular thing... ie. a domain server being shutdown for maintanence. Anyone used to a UNIX environment can place windows messaging service akin to the wall command.
Anyhow... remove it if you haven't got a legit need for it.
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