Xp sp2 not as secure as people think

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From: Greg R (webworm12_at_yes.hotmail.com)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:17:27 -0500

Xp sp2 not as secure as people think

Since I have my own firewall.
I have disabled Application Layer Gateway Service and Windows
Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)

I have notice I got a lot of tcp incoming connection request from My
firewall.

So I did some testing and found out Task Scheduler is the problem.

However. If Task Scheduler is disabled I only got one incoming
connection request which was from my isp. So I blocked it.

Microsoft needs to fix Task Scheduler . I am using xp sp2 rtm.

Greg R

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