Re: Zone Alarm and Messenger Service
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 08/31/04
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:27:28 +0100
Phyllis wrote:
>I have just downloaded Zone Alarms (free) and I keep getting this alert from
>ZA that Messenger is trying to act as a server. Do I allow this or not?
If it is Windows Messenger (and it probably is) then you need to allow
that to act as a server *if* you want to use it to send files. There is
also an unrelated 'Messenger Service' but I have not seen that ask this
of ZA, and I would not let that act as a server on the Internet
connection
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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