Follow through the steps :)
http://www.howtodisablemessenger.com/

Hahahahaaha, that's great. Companies trying to sell the information of how to turn off a service!

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/

[quote author=Thing link=board=4;threadid=1557;start=0#msg11707 date=1054910960]
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/
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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.

+1 to Thing. That's just... awesome. 8)

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!

I keep my 10% from Grok and charge him $5.49 for pointing out that he's on an Apache box, not IIS.

Hehe whatever.

I gave you +1 since Yoni said he would, but didn't.

I did! -1 to Grok.

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LOL.

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)

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)

[quote author=MesiaH link=board=4;threadid=1557;start=0#msg12185 date=1055447166]
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)
[/quote]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.

[quote]I think thats worth some money.. (As are firewalls )[/quote]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.

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...

[quote author=Yoni link=board=4;threadid=1557;start=0#msg12205 date=1055454887]
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...
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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!

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.

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What good is a firewall going to do you if somebody exploits a vulnerability through a purposefully open port?
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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.

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.

[quote author=Yoni link=board=4;threadid=1557;start=0#msg12205 date=1055454887]
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...
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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.

Before every advertisment company started using messenger service, Skywing and Yoni attacked me with it!

[quote author=Noodlez link=board=4;threadid=1557;start=15#msg14251 date=1057745939]
Before every advertisment company started using messenger service, Skywing and Yoni attacked me with it!
[/quote]I'd just found out about it, how do you expect me to not abuse it? ;)

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.

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?

[quote author=Adron link=board=4;threadid=1557;start=15#msg28021 date=1068255999]
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?
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I'm unfamalier with the laws. Perhaps! :)