chris wrote:
I quite often (and they are increasing in number at a fair rate), get Microsoft Networking broadcast messages (advertising "pr0n" and "warez") showing on my screen on this 2000 box. I have no need to receive them at all, so disabling them completely would do the trick. Trouble is, I have no idea how to do this. I'm tempted to stop the Messenger service but am reluctant to do so in case it breaks something else. Might give it a try anyway... those messages are really starting to irritate me.
I got
this which I suspect is the same as what you are talking about ('Tjenesten Messenger' means Messenger Service). I posted about it here and got some kind advice (along with alot of mocking :-D).
I disabled the following services:
Messenger service
TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper Service
And guess what, they haven't been back since.
And I haven't noticed anything breaking as a result of this, so unless you are certain you need these services, I think it's safe to disable them.
