»Q« wrote:
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.
So much for that theory!
Nope - I post to the NG directly. This was the only News Server I
posted to for a couple of years, it was the only one which did not
require me to provide a valid email address. I have given several
accounts up when they were spammed to death, [email protected]
is pretty secure that way.
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