Win2000 Paranoia

[that_punk_guy]

Does anyone know what the "Services and Controller app" in Windows 2000 Pro is for and why it needs to access the internet so frequently?  ;-)

[that_punk_guy]

Tesral wrote:

that_punk_guy wrote:
Does anyone know what the "Services and Controller app" in Windows 2000 Pro is for and why it needs to access the internet so frequently?  ;-)

It is Paranoia when they reall ARE out to control your life?

...not sure if I should "lol" or not  :-D

[that_punk_guy]

thanks guys  :-)

well with outgoing connections blocked I get no web access,  although i havent noticed any problems with blocking incoming connections yet... P2P's working okay...

Said Service Pack has been removed  ;-) heres hoping my installation is not still tainted 'cause I'm *so* not installing the damn thing again  :-P

nighty night everyone he he  :-D

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

[that_punk_guy]

Currently just a few things tie me to Windows:

1. Nero Cover Designer
2. Yahoo Messenger (I couldn't for the life of me get the Linux version installed)
3. Cakewalk Home Studio

Other than that, a few games and video codecs....

I never could get Neutrino or BeOS working, and I can't use Unix 'cause I only have an IQ of 111  :-D

I found xp-AntiSpy, but it's not really making me feel much better about the state of the world  :-)  

ta!

[that_punk_guy]

carls wrote:
What exactly does this Service send? What ports is it using? Turns out I'm running SP3...

ZoneAlarm says:
"Services and Controller app: Listening to port(s): UDP: 1027"

And this is from the ZoneAlarm log after I blocked outgoing connections:
"Services and Controller app was unable to obtain permission for connecting to the Internet (194.168.8.100:DNS); access was denied.,N/A"

[that_punk_guy]

MS are not allowed by law (certainly in Europe, I can't speak for the US) to hold personal information on you without your express permission

Microsoft is above the law!!!  ;-)