Re: THE CORRECT (AND ONLY) WAY TO DEAL WITH MESSENGER SERVICE POP-UPS. DON'T LISTEN TO JK - OR ANYONE ELSE!!

From: Earl Caravelle II (noespam_at_terra.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:40:34 +0200

Late last week, America Online acknowledged it taken the drastic and
unprecedented step of programming its software to silently turn off a
Windows service so that it could stem the tide of spam and security
vulnerabilities facing its subscribers.

The Windows Messenger service, enabled by default, allegorically leaves the
door wide open for pop-up ads to pester Windows XP and 2000 users, while
leaving them at risk of security exploits. Now, Microsoft has weighed in and
says it will turn off the service in Windows XP. 

-- 
"Cerridwen" <cerridwen@celticnet.com> wrote in message
news:c4c20o$tbu$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Fred wrote:
> > Then why is Microsoft turning off Messenger Service by default in XP
> > SP2 and future releases?
>
> They aren't. Where on earth did you hear that?!
>
>

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