Re: How to Disable MMC.EXE acting as a server? (Microsoft Management Console)

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From: Wesley Vogel (123WVogel955_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/18/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 00:59:38 GMT

If you've got DCOM disabled, don't open Component Services snap-in
(DCOMCNFG).
And don't click on "Components".

"DCOMbobulator" allows any Windows user
to quickly check their system's DCOM vulnerability, then
simply shut down the unnecessary DCOM security risk.
http://grc.com/dcom/intro.htm 

-- 
Hope this helps.  Let us know.
Wes
In news:uLW2$8DbEHA.808@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
Chipmonk <no_mail_responses@required.thanx>  hunted and pecked:
> I've managed to close all the listening ports using online guides,
> and the utilities at GRC.COM.
>
> However, if I click Start -> Run -> type DCOMCNFG and hit OK. When the
> Microsoft Management Console opens, I click on "Components" but then
> Zone Alarm prompts asking if I want to allow Microsoft Management
> Console to act as a server program. Whether I deny or allow access,
> TCP ports 135 and 1030 are opened regardless.
>
> The IP address it's trying to connect to is 0.0.0.0 which, as I
> understand it, is Loopback(?) in other words it's trying to connect
> to itself, and not a remote system?
>
> What confuses me even more is that Steve Gibson says on his Website
> (GRC.COM) that *ONLY* Task Scheduler, MSDTC or DCOM will cause TCP
> 135 to open. I know for certain I have DCOM and Task Scheduler
> disabled, but MSDTC no longer appears in the Services window so I
> cannot be 100% sure.
>
> This occurs both before AND after I've freshly re-installed WindowsXP
> Pro, applied SP1 and installed Zone Alarm (free). Network card
> disabled in BIOS, no Internet connection set up.
>
> Why does MMC need to act as a server? How can I disable it from even
> trying?

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