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To: mr.mark who wrote (36398)	9/3/2003 3:23:47 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110653

oooh i'm liking this.... ****************************** "This System's DCOM / RPC TCP Port 135 is Closed! Congratulations are in order DCOM is shut down and disabled on this system: It doesn't get any better than this. Not only is this system's DCOM facility shut down and disabled, but the "port of entry" for all TCP DCOM exploits is closed and will reject any local or remote attempts at connection and exploitation. Congratulations." ******************************* actually, port 135 is stealthed, which is easily verifiable on with the Gibson DCOM tool. i stopped Task Scheduler, resetting startup to 'manual' because i never use it for anything. the other service that Gibson said might have been holding port 135 open, the Distributed Transaction Coordinator, had already been stopped and set to manual, by default. i now have DCOM completely disabled on my winxp box and my win2k box. if any problems arise i will definitely post here about them. hth