[thelist] what is this scam?
Dougal Campbell
dougal at gunters.org
Tue Nov 26 15:03:01 CST 2002
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Mike Migurski wrote:
> mini-rant: why is crap like this /enabled/ by default?
Because the messenger service is normally used by the system to deliver
messages such as print notifications. The messenger service, in and of
itself, is not necessarily a bad thing.
I'll second the vote for installing ZoneAlarm. If you install it, I bet
that you'll quickly become unpleasantly surprised at how many random
probes that your computer sees that you currently aren't even aware
of....
I'll also recommend AdAware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/). It will
detect/remove all sorts of spyware programs that hitchhike into your
system along with other programs that you install.
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