On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 04:56, Edward wrote: > HHmm, Windows boxes allowing people do something externally (pop up a > dialogue), without running a service which listens for it (winpopup). > > Sounds like finally Windows security is stepping up........ Nope. The 'messenger' service is running by default and listens for it. Turn that off and you can't get (or send I believe) net send and Alerter messages. Ron