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Annihilate The Agent (Service)



 22 November 00:00   Kill The Agent (Service)

     You are accustomed with the software applications that you run on your computer, but you may not be accustomed with the dozens of programs active in the accomplishments on your computer. These programs, alleged "services" handle tasks like accident logging, spooling files to the printer, and networking. One of these services, the Agent Service, can be reconnoitered by spammers.

    The aboriginal purpose of the Agent Account was to acquiesce arrangement administrators to forward a bulletin to some or all of the users on a network. The bulletin appears in a popup window to active the users. Agent Account is not instant-messaging. It does not acquiesce the users to respond.

    All windows versions install Agent Account and about-face it on by default. A program advisedly accessible from the Internet allows spammers to ascendancy the Agent Account on hundreds of bags of computers on the Web. Users accept popup spam windows that are not generated by the website they are visiting.

    If your computer is on a arrangement abaft a firewall, or you accept a firewall appliance installed on your computer, it can be configured to block admission to the Agent Service. Alotof firewalls are configured by absence to block admission to the Agent Service. If not, configure your firewall to block anchorage 135, the anchorage acclimated by Agent Service.

    Microsoft, in their benightedness of computer security, brand to leave "back doors" to your computer open. But they assuredly wised up and windows XP Account Backpack 2 turns off the Agent Service. If you are active windows XP, your best bet would be to install Account Backpack 2 to about-face off the Agent Account and abutting several additional aegis holes.

    If you are active windows 2000, you can about-face off the Agent Account manually. Baddest "Run..." in the Alpha card and in the "Open:" argument box blazon services.msc, then bang on the "OK" button. In the "Services" window that appears, right-click on "Messenger". In the "Properties" chat box that appears, bang on the "Stop" button and then in the "Startup Type" drop-down account baddest "Disabled". Then bang on the "OK" button.

    If you are active windows NT, baddest "Services" in the "Adminstrative Tools" utility. Then attenuate the Agent Account as declared above. If you are active windows 95/98/Me, you can t attenuate Agent Service, you charge to abolish it. Use the "Add/Remove Programs" account in Ascendancy Console to appearance the data of "System Tools". Uncheck the box next to "WinPopUp".

    Now, with the Agent Account on your computer disabled or removed, spammers will accept to go aback to annoying you the old appearance way - with spam email.

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