In <news:[email protected]>, A Williams <[email protected]> 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. The message was posted by e-mail. Once any e-mailed message makes it through the mail-to-news gateway to the Giganews server, it picks up some headers (like Path) with "giganews" in them. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
