10-16-03, 07:56 AM
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Its me! Hurray!
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Location: Brit in USA
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The Windows Messenger Service
A lot of us have this service switched off already on our PCs already. If not, you should now:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...n/MS03-043.asp If it wasn't bad enough that you can get spam just popup on your PC, now virii will be able to spread through it too. You won't need to open a strange email, or download an attachment from a website, a worm could just spread automatically only any machine running this unpatched service.
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10-16-03, 07:57 AM
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Its me! Hurray!
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hmm, this probably belongs in the Windows forum. sorry
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10-16-03, 08:24 AM
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Team Rainbow
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First thing I do after installing is disable that
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10-16-03, 09:26 AM
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We have that service disabled on all the ghosts we use at work. Glad to see being proactive might actually pay off for once.
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10-16-03, 09:30 AM
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Just changed the subject title to make it a bit more enlightening
Leave it here for the time being so more people will see it. |
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10-23-03, 08:13 AM
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Angel Arms
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Whoever decided to use the phrase "you ninny" in the thread title gets a gold star for interesting vocabulary use.
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10-23-03, 08:50 AM
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What other major services should I turn off.
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[SIZE=1][I]"It was very important to us that NVIDIA did not know exactly where to aim. As a result they seem to have over-engineered in some aspects creating a power-hungry monster which is going to be very expensive for them to manufacture. We have a beautifully balanced piece of hardware that beats them on pure performance, cost, scalability, future mobile relevance, etc. That's all because they didn't know what to aim at." -R.Huddy[/I] [/SIZE] |
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10-23-03, 09:07 AM
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But there's no way in hell it should be turned on anyway--it's utterly useless, and you can get popup spam through it. |
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10-23-03, 05:58 PM
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Quote:
http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp...es/index.shtml |
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10-23-03, 06:08 PM
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Thanks, edumacating meself now.
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[SIZE=1][I]"It was very important to us that NVIDIA did not know exactly where to aim. As a result they seem to have over-engineered in some aspects creating a power-hungry monster which is going to be very expensive for them to manufacture. We have a beautifully balanced piece of hardware that beats them on pure performance, cost, scalability, future mobile relevance, etc. That's all because they didn't know what to aim at." -R.Huddy[/I] [/SIZE] |
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10-25-03, 01:50 PM
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http://grc.com
Has a few programs to shut of messenger, dcom, and a few other services. Oh and try out the new port scanners to test out your firewalls
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10-26-03, 12:22 PM
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You might also want to try this site: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm. It tells you what XP and 2000 services you probably should and shouldnt have on. It also helps you eliminate some of the lag when you start up Win XP and 2k.
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