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Re: Windows Messenger Pop-up spam


From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:30:19 +0100

On 2004-11-30 Steven Trewick wrote:
Some people may have also gone into "services" and disabled the
messenger service. 

Which will merely have lulled them into a false sense of security,
since the traffic is still making it to their IP stack. For windows
boxen, this is almost as good as "game over"

You may want to give at least one reason for this opinion.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
-- 
"Those who would give up liberty for a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety, and will lose both."
--Benjamin Franklin


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