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No Services, No Problems

July 29th, 2005 by noam, Filed under: Microsoft

Sysinternals has posted an article where they show how to turn virtually all the services of the Windows XP’s operating system and still get Internet Explorer to run smoothly. The immediate benefit from doing this is of course, security, which we all love. No RPC to get you Blaster, no SMSS to get you Sasser, and so on so forth.

Is this going to get adopted by the security community? I believe so, as you don’t really need file sharing capabilities, if you are the only one on the network, you don’t need to be able to run Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) if you are the only one that should run commands on your computer, etc.