I have had a number of calls the last two days about news reports of spam
and hackers using Windows Messaging Services to "attack" personal computers.

Unfortunately, none of these news reports tell how to turn it off.

It should be off on UTC computers. For those of you at home, here is how to
turn it off.
This is very important because there are reports of the technique
"hijacking" modems and running up four and five hundred dollar phone bills.

Happy home (and dorm ) computing, just follow these instructions at home:
http://www.utc.edu/StudentMicroLabs/sml/messenger.html

Jim Bowman; Manager, Student Technology
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Mail Code: 1611
My Office: 423-425-4517         Fax: 423-425-1754
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http://www.utc.edu/StudentMicroLabs
We are in Siskin room 106. See map from the link above

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