From: "Gary Britt" 

Yes, I agree.  It just seems prudent to turn off services not used.  I turn
off those services I can in Win2K, like Alerter and Messenger and a few
others.

Gary

"Geo"  wrote in message news:42ff867d{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:42ff7071$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I've got some printer drivers you can install that do a very effective
job
> > of killing the spooler service.  Let me know if you need some
copies 
>
> If's funny but this month's patches include one for the spooler that is a
> remote anonymous code execution exploit (on w2k, don't remember if it's
> anonymous on XPsp2).
>
> So I went to patch all my web/mail/dns servers and realized only one was
> ever at risk because I've disabled the spool service as part of the
install
> routine for my servers that don't actually provide print services. It
occurs
> to me MS should think along these lines, the world would be a much safer
> place if they did.
>
> Geo.
>
>
>

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