Re: [Full-Disclosure] Why does a home computer user need DCOM?

2003-09-14 Thread Quite Mad
tabs as shown in the screen shot above: "Am I Vulnerable?" to test the current state of your system's DCOM facility and "DCOMbobulate Me!" to allow you to disable or re-enable DCOM as you choose. Message: 11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Why does a ho

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Why does a home computer user need DCOM?

2003-09-11 Thread Stephen Perciballi
Of course it is possible to disable it. It really depends on what you're doing with the OS. I have an XP workstation that only has remote desktop running and everything is working fine. Stephen Perciballi phone: 1-41

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Why does a home computer user need DCOM?

2003-09-11 Thread Jean-Baptiste Marchand
* *Hobbit* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10/09/03 - 13:31]: > Once again, I wouldn't mind a way to turn off *ALL* the RPC stuff, > including the RPC service itself, without paying the price of having > almost everything I do afterward just sit there and stupidly wait for it > to respond. A box with it dis

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Why does a home computer user need DCOM?

2003-09-11 Thread Nick FitzGerald
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (*Hobbit*) wrote: > Once again, I wouldn't mind a way to turn off *ALL* the RPC stuff, > including the RPC service itself, without paying the price of having > almost everything I do afterward just sit there and stupidly wait for it > to respond. A box with it disabled *will* ru

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Why does a home computer user need DCOM?

2003-09-10 Thread *Hobbit*
Once again, I wouldn't mind a way to turn off *ALL* the RPC stuff, including the RPC service itself, without paying the price of having almost everything I do afterward just sit there and stupidly wait for it to respond. A box with it disabled *will* run, just barely, it'll just be sluggish as hel

[Full-Disclosure] Why does a home computer user need DCOM?

2003-09-10 Thread Richard M. Smith
Hello, Yet another buffer overflow error has been found in DCOM and Microsoft has released a new patch for it today according to a security bulletin on their Web site. If I am running a Windows PC at home, why would I want DCOM turned on in the first place? What purpose does it serve? Has Micros