Enable Alerter?

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Carl

Many years experience with a Mac, but new to Windows XP, which I am
using on my MacBook running VMWare Fusion 2.0.1

I found my way to Computer Management and as I began exploring there,
I found that under Services that Alerter was by default Disabled.

It notes that Alerter notifies selected users and computers of
administrative alerts and would *seem* to be a useful thing to have
enabled?

Am I wrong? Would wiser head say leave it disabled or enable it?

Many thanks,
Carl
 
Carl said:
Many years experience with a Mac, but new to Windows XP, which I am
using on my MacBook running VMWare Fusion 2.0.1

I found my way to Computer Management and as I began exploring there,
I found that under Services that Alerter was by default Disabled.

It notes that Alerter notifies selected users and computers of
administrative alerts and would *seem* to be a useful thing to have
enabled?

Am I wrong? Would wiser head say leave it disabled or enable it?
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Unless you are planing on sending alerts to other computers on a network
leave it disabled. The Alerter service relies the Messenger service to
transmits alerts, for security reasons these services should be disabled.

John
 
Unless you are planing on sending alerts to other computers on a network
leave it disabled.  The Alerter service relies the Messenger service to
transmits alerts, for security reasons these services should be disabled.

John
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Thanks very much for the clear answer, John.

Carl
 
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