On 12/16/2013 09:59 AM, A Williams wrote:
[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.
Looking at the header for that message, it looks as though it was posted
using Giganews. This leaves me questioning your statement that you do
not use it.
Do you use it?
Your header also shows X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com, as do
all of my posts, and I don't use Giganews.
Giganews is the hosting provider for news.mozilla.org.
I think the problem is his home page opens to news.mozilla.giganews.com,
but I can't get that to load in any browser.
But I think we need clarification on what they mean by "Every time we
log on to the internet, we find news.mozilla.giganews.com is
automatically ON our machine (NNTP)."
I don't log onto the Internet, and what does "ON our machine" mean.
See his thread at [Why Is news.mozilla.giganews.com on machine? •
mozillaZine
Forums](http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=2782205)
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