December 11th 03, 06:07 PM
Good to know I'm not alone. This sucks, I'm so sick of
all these programs that don't have a way to stop them
from trying to connect. Other offeders are DS Log which
is Dell's support, M.S Office, Sonic update manager which
is a CD label program that tries to connect. they all
have options to not auto update which I select, however
they still wake up and try to phone home.
BUT MESSENGER is the WORST! it attempts every hour for 3
hours at a clip at 600 attempts per hr. or so, then it
quiets down & out of nowhere it starts up again. I think
it happens to more people but they just don't check their
firewall logs or task mgr to see whats going on. There
should be a way WITHIN the program to KILL IT!!
I have real concerns about the stability & performance of
my work programs with the firewall grinding away blocking
hundreds of attempts.
Hopefully someone can help us with this:)
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have Zone Alarm & it blocks hundreds & hundreds of
>>outgoing attempts from the Messenger program on a daily
>>basis.
>>
>>I have set win messenger options to not run on startup,
>>removed it from add/remove windows components, and I
>have
>>disabled NAV 2003 instant messenger scan from running
>>(due to conflicts I read about on this forum) yet it
>>keeps running & running & running......
>>
>>Has anyone else had these attempts/logs with their
>>firewalls???
>>.
>>
>
>I have this same behavior. Windows messenger even tries
>to dial into the internet when I'm not online. I can't
>find any settings inside Messenger that would stop this.
>Actually I was searching this newsgroup for just this
>problem. My current solution is to do just what you are
>doing and I downloaded Zone Alarm and denied messenger
>access to the internet unless it asks and I grant it.
>When the computer is unattended I leave the internet
>locked in ZA. So far this is the best solution I've come
>up with. It seems messenger is trying to send data out
>ever few hours.
>.
>
all these programs that don't have a way to stop them
from trying to connect. Other offeders are DS Log which
is Dell's support, M.S Office, Sonic update manager which
is a CD label program that tries to connect. they all
have options to not auto update which I select, however
they still wake up and try to phone home.
BUT MESSENGER is the WORST! it attempts every hour for 3
hours at a clip at 600 attempts per hr. or so, then it
quiets down & out of nowhere it starts up again. I think
it happens to more people but they just don't check their
firewall logs or task mgr to see whats going on. There
should be a way WITHIN the program to KILL IT!!
I have real concerns about the stability & performance of
my work programs with the firewall grinding away blocking
hundreds of attempts.
Hopefully someone can help us with this:)
>-----Original Message-----
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have Zone Alarm & it blocks hundreds & hundreds of
>>outgoing attempts from the Messenger program on a daily
>>basis.
>>
>>I have set win messenger options to not run on startup,
>>removed it from add/remove windows components, and I
>have
>>disabled NAV 2003 instant messenger scan from running
>>(due to conflicts I read about on this forum) yet it
>>keeps running & running & running......
>>
>>Has anyone else had these attempts/logs with their
>>firewalls???
>>.
>>
>
>I have this same behavior. Windows messenger even tries
>to dial into the internet when I'm not online. I can't
>find any settings inside Messenger that would stop this.
>Actually I was searching this newsgroup for just this
>problem. My current solution is to do just what you are
>doing and I downloaded Zone Alarm and denied messenger
>access to the internet unless it asks and I grant it.
>When the computer is unattended I leave the internet
>locked in ZA. So far this is the best solution I've come
>up with. It seems messenger is trying to send data out
>ever few hours.
>.
>