However, the Openwares.org patch may not have been tested across a broad range of Windows machines, as Microsoft patches are, Smith warned. The decision by Openwares is another example of a third party stepping in to fix a problem when Microsoft is slow to do so, he said.
America Online Inc. took a similar step when it unilaterally disabled the Windows Messenger Service on its customers' machines in October. That service contained a critical security flaw and was being exploited by spammers to display pop-up advertisements on Windows desktops.
Security company PivX Solutions LLC also released a program recently called Qwik-Fix that disables Windows configuration settings and features that are not used, but that pose a security risk. (http://www.pivx.com/qwikfix/corp.html.)
Microsoft has begun to take similar configuration steps. The company announced a number of configuration changes in Windows XP Service Pack 2, including disabling Windows Messenger Service and turning on the built in firewall that ships with Windows XP.
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