full-disclosure - Bug in XP Help and Support, or Don't Be Fooled By Disabled Services

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From: sixsigma98 at hotmail.com (Ray P)
Subject: Bug in XP Help and Support, or Don't Be Fooled By
 Disabled Services

Yeah, I used to think that also. We disable the XP Internet Connection 
Firwall service because we have our own, a real one. On our ThinkPads, the 
IBM Access Connections software re-enables and starts it.

The problem wa resolved by uninstalling IBM Access Connections.

Ray

>From: "Trowelfaz" <trowelfaz@...mail.com>
>To: <full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com>
>Subject: [Full-Disclosure] Bug in XP Help and Support, or Don't Be Fooled 
>By Disabled Services
>Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 21:27:31 -0500

>I always thought that a service that was set to disabled cannot
>be set to automatic and started without user intervention. Hmmm, Just maybe
>I could get that pesky AV software to go disabled or better yet, the task
>scheduler looks pretty nice...
>
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