Re: Blocking MSN Messanger ports

[Joseph Begumisa <begj at cfi.co.ug>]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Hervey Allen wrote:
> My one caution on "auto-editing" the registry is that this invites the
> possibility of crashing the user's machine when the script is run.
> Microsoft always warns a user to have their data fully backed up before
> making changes to either registry (user or system). The reason for this is
> that it's unpredictable when edited, particularly if the user has made
> changes on their own. In addition, this can become a legacy problem over
> time as user's upgrade machines. Finally, your script must account for all
> the flavors of Windows and where the correct registry keys reside for each
> version, _and_ it should not do anything if it doesn't recognize the
> Windows version as Microsoft is constantly moving registry values between
> Windows versions.
> 	Personally I would stay away from this approach if possible.

I agree too.  I would stay away unless it was a test machine.  Sometimes
things fail to work after that and you just can't figure out why.


Joseph.


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