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Title: How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Yoni on June 06, 2003, 06:33 AM
Follow through the steps :)
http://www.howtodisablemessenger.com/
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Grok on June 06, 2003, 06:59 AM
Hahahahaaha, that's great.  Companies trying to sell the information of how to turn off a service!
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Thing on June 06, 2003, 09:49 AM
Maybe if he sends me $99.99 this week only,  I'll tell him how to turn of directory indexing. >:D

http://www.howtodisablemessenger.com/images/
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Grok on June 06, 2003, 10:54 AM
Quote from: Thing on June 06, 2003, 09:49 AM
Maybe if he sends me $99.99 this week only,  I'll tell him how to turn of directory indexing. >:D

http://www.howtodisablemessenger.com/images/

For a small 10% royalty of all future proceeds you earn from this information, I'll tell you that it is directory browsing and not directory indexing.
Title: Wow!
Post by: Yoni on June 06, 2003, 10:55 AM
+1 to Thing. That's just... awesome.  8)
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Crypticflare on June 06, 2003, 11:06 AM
lol thats great. To bad if you view source you can get to the next link without paying :/. I'll charge you a piece of terryaki beef jerky to get in on the deal!
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Thing on June 06, 2003, 01:00 PM
I keep my 10% from Grok and charge him $5.49 for pointing out that he's on an Apache box, not IIS.
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Grok on June 06, 2003, 01:06 PM
Hehe whatever.

I gave you +1 since Yoni said he would, but didn't.
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Yoni on June 06, 2003, 01:51 PM
I did! -1 to Grok.
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Naem on June 06, 2003, 06:15 PM
Quote<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.howtodisablemessenger.com/steps7623/step3.html">

LOL.
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: iago on June 06, 2003, 08:35 PM
I guess the irony is that they are the only ones I've ever been spammed by (every time I install windows, they are the first to send me a message to force me to disable messanger service)
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Mesiah / haiseM on June 12, 2003, 02:46 PM
whats most funny of all, is that its common sense to disable services, i dont see how anybody could not know how to do it...

Everytime i restart my computer, around once a week or two, i always run msconfig, disable startup processes, disable services, scan registry, and other precautions to ensure the best that my crappy system can provide, but i find it absolutely hillarious that they would charge somebody to disable a service, which takes a total of 10 seconds to perform.

Maybe they should look more into blocking port 135 on windows xp and windows 2000, which is a HUGE vulnerability, that allows people to connect, send massive amounts of bull shit, causes svchost.exe to crash, and forces a restart. I think thats worth some money.. (As are firewalls :P)
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Yoni on June 12, 2003, 03:27 PM
Quote from: MesiaH on June 12, 2003, 02:46 PM
Maybe they should look more into blocking port 135 on windows xp and windows 2000, which is a HUGE vulnerability, that allows people to connect, send massive amounts of bull shit, causes svchost.exe to crash, and forces a restart. I think thats worth some money.. (As are firewalls :P)
You can easily block port 135 with a hardware firewall/router, or if you don't have one, by using the IPSec service in Win2k/XP.
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Thing on June 12, 2003, 04:11 PM
QuoteI think thats worth some money.. (As are firewalls )
Firewalls??  Firewalls are for sissies who are afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.  What good is a firewall going to do you if somebody exploits a vulnerability through a purposefully open port?  The end result is the same with or without a firewall, they got root and you got the shaft.
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Yoni on June 12, 2003, 04:54 PM
That's why I said "firewall/router". Many routers call themselves firewalls to sell better.

A hardware device that acts as a firewall but not as a router sounds pretty stupid...
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: iago on June 12, 2003, 05:30 PM
Quote from: Yoni on June 12, 2003, 04:54 PM
That's why I said "firewall/router". Many routers call themselves firewalls to sell better.

A hardware device that acts as a firewall but not as a router sounds pretty stupid...

I have one of those, I call it empty-space.  If somebody wants to hax0r me, I unplug my crossover cable from the back of my computer and they hit my firewall!
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Thing on June 12, 2003, 07:05 PM
iago I'm going to hax0r your computer at 10:00 p.m. Central.

Yoni I modified my previous post to clarify my response.

It just my opinion that Zone Alarm, Black Ice Defender, etc. are a waste of money.  Of course I'm looking at it from a different perspective than most people.  I think a well configured and maintained box is much better.
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Mesiah / haiseM on June 12, 2003, 10:38 PM
Quote from: Thing on June 12, 2003, 04:11 PM
What good is a firewall going to do you if somebody exploits a vulnerability through a purposefully open port?

It's good because you can still use the port locally, and yes, firewalls are completely unnescisary, the day i use one is because i have 15 trojans that appeared out of thin air, or my brother downloads too many porno installers.
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Yoni on June 13, 2003, 04:54 AM
Ah, yes, I agree with that.
Some people I know use firewalls - warez of course. No money wasted, and they're better off using that than learning how to configure things properly.
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Adron on June 14, 2003, 06:00 AM
Quote from: Yoni on June 12, 2003, 04:54 PM
That's why I said "firewall/router". Many routers call themselves firewalls to sell better.

A hardware device that acts as a firewall but not as a router sounds pretty stupid...

They are actually really neat. I don't remember the name they had now, something like "filtering switch". It's like a router/firewall except it doesn't use up an IP.

Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Noodlez on July 09, 2003, 05:18 AM
Before every advertisment company started using messenger service, Skywing and Yoni attacked me with it!
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Yoni on July 09, 2003, 09:42 AM
Quote from: Noodlez on July 09, 2003, 05:18 AM
Before every advertisment company started using messenger service, Skywing and Yoni attacked me with it!
I'd just found out about it, how do you expect me to not abuse it? ;)
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: iago on November 07, 2003, 04:06 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/11/07/microsoft.popup.reut/index.html

Not sure if that's the same company, but it sounds like it.
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: Adron on November 07, 2003, 07:46 PM
Well, it should amount to extortion. What's the penalty for that? Any chance of a death penalty for the VP? Extortion does bring criminal charges, right?
Title: Re:How to disable the Windows Messenger Service
Post by: iago on November 07, 2003, 10:15 PM
Quote from: Adron on November 07, 2003, 07:46 PM
Well, it should amount to extortion. What's the penalty for that? Any chance of a death penalty for the VP? Extortion does bring criminal charges, right?

I'm unfamalier with the laws.  Perhaps! :)