Re: Messenger Popups

[Margaret_Doll <Margaret_Doll@xxxxxxxxx>]

The port is 139.  At our campus we have stopped incoming messages on 
port 139, but we allow its usage within the Departments.  We have 
stopped the unsolicited "pop-up" windows created through the messenger 
service while maintaining the service for communications within 
research groups.

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 06:20 AM, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

> I read about this somewhere  but cant quite remember where.  they
> suggested blocking to ports as windows uses this service internally.  i
> personally dont know as i dont have any windows machines here.  a 
> google
> search should show up what ports you need to block. though perhaps you
> should block all incomming ports except those that are absoultly
> neccesary.
>
>
> Dennis
>
> On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 15:11, Buck wrote:
> > I have a problem in Windows that outside users are popping up ads from
> > windows messenger.   I am wondering if there is a similar product in
> > RedHat that might be having the same problem.  Or, is Red Hat safe 
> > from
> > that junk?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Buck
> --
> Dennis Gilmore <dennis@dgilmore.net>
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