December 07, 2000 10:07 PM

Dangerous Services, Part 1

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Basic physical security policy for a building calls for eliminating all unnecessary doors and putting locks, guards, or cameras on the rest. For computers, network services are the doorways into a Windows 2000 system, so "eliminate all unnecessary services" is a time-honored commandment for protecting computers. Win2K comes with a lot of services enabled by default, many of which you don’t need. Even if the service doesn’t offer direct access to system resources, it might expose a sy...

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Large chunks of this article are just scaremongering - the IIS Admin service (for example) is not present unless you're running the web server, and if you are you _need_ this service - its a prerequisite for the World Wide Web Publishing Service to run at all (in essence its IIS's parent service). Disable it my arse.

Try and check stuff.

piers 12/13/2000 12:46:10 PM


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