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> From: Jeff Crosby > > Yes and yes. One web site said that you couldn't disable it in W98, but > that .PDF I mentioned (in another post) said that winpopup.exe had to be > running in W98. After starting that, the W98 machines seem to work OK. > > The W2K and XP machines all have the Messenger service started so I'm > still investigating there. > > Interestingly, I can send the message to 'jeff' (my user id) or > 'jlcrosby' (my PC name) and still receive it. Mark Waterbury brought to my attention the issue that enabling this service is a security vulnerability: >From Mark: ---------- Hi, Joe: Since I cannot "post" directly to this list for some reason (it always "bounces"...), do you want to alert these folks that enabling this Microsoft "feature" enables many viruses and trojan horses to get into their systems and become active? ---------- FYI, folks. Joe
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