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Microsoft: DoS Bug Affects Most Windows Versions July 18, 2005


A bug in Windows that went public last week may be worse than originally thought, Microsoft confirmed Saturday in a weekend advisory. One security analyst fears that the vulnerability -- which for now looks limited to a denial-of-service attack -- may soon be found to cause more severe problems for Windows users.

According to the Security Advisory posted Saturday, the bug in Windows Remote Desktop Service affects not just Windows XP SP2, as originally thought, but all the supported editions of Windows, including Windows 2000, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP Professional x64, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 SP1, and Windows Server x64.


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Interesting. I never trusted features like Remote Desktop (or similar ones, e.g. RealVNC), so I always tend to disable or not install such services at all (RealVNC is a third-party software)

To disable Remote Desktop completely, go to start->run, type "services.msc" and find the "Terminal Services" and "Remote Desktop Help Session Manager". Stop both services and set their startup type to "Disabled". Note that Fast user switching requires Terminal Services to be up and running as well, so if you use it, make sure to disable it first.

An interesting article about Remote Desktop and Terminal Services can be found here:
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articl..._Services.html