In <news:mailman.13842.1387148255.23841.support-seamon...@lists.mozilla.org>, [email protected] wrote:
> Dear [email protected], > > We tried to get help at the Seamonkey forums but they don't know > anything about this. Can someone please help us understand why > giganews is ON our machine and how to get it OFF permanently? > > 1. We never use the news or mail features built into Seamonkey and > don't plan to. Is there a way to delete/reconfigure those features to > totally eliminate their functioning on our installed Seamonkey? > > 2. This is the situation: > Every time we log on to the internet, we find > news.mozilla.giganews.com is automatically ON our machine (NNTP). We > don't know why this is, but we prefer not to have things > automatically accessing our machine before we even do anything > online. Is there some way to shut this off? And why is it on in the > first place? What is it doing when it is showing up as port activity? > > The only "newsgroup" or discussion board we (rarely) use is when we > need assistance from support at Seamonkey forums. But this giganews > entry shows up on our view of connections, whether we access that > support site or not. It's there first thing every time. We figure the > fewer ports are open, the more secure our machine, so we want to get > rid of giganews. > > Please advise, and thanks for your help. > > PS If this is the wrong address to send this to, please advise. > Again, many thanks. This mailing list is has exactly the same content as the newsgroup mozilla.support.seamonkey -- they mirror each other. To prevent connections to the news server when you're not using it, * Open a Mail and Newsgroups window. * Open the Account Settings via either the Edit menu or the Tools menu. (I don't know which because it may depend on your operating system.) * On the left, highlight the Server Settings for the Mozilla server. * Uncheck the boxes that make SeaMonkey check the server at startup and check the server every N minutes. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
