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Security Hole?
Authored by: EatingPie on Dec 11, '03 03:37:29PM

On my Win2K Machine at home, I was receiving messages from the Internet. They said something like "A new kind of security hack is coming..." and directed me to a decidedly non-Microsoft web site to download (and pay for) some decidely non-Microsoft utility. Yeah... right....

A quick Google search gave me instructions on turning off the messanging service, and I haven't been bothered since.

That Windows ships with it on by default, however, and that it can be exploited from the Internet, constitutes a security risk in my book. Maybe it's been changed with WinXP, but given the functionality of this hint, I doubt it.


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Security Hole?
Authored by: osxpounder on Dec 11, '03 04:57:11PM

Right, this is what I was talking about when I said I'd never actually seen this service used legitimately -- but I was getting intentionally annoying popups on my PCs until someone hipped me that there was a Messaging service running in the background, by default, allowing anyone in the world to send me pop ups.

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