Re: Security issue at the welcome screen.

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From: Rocky (yr_at_tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:24:45 GMT

Thanks. So the system isn't as vulnerable as if I were logged in without a
firewall and virus protection. Are there any root level commands a hacker
could execute at the welcome screen without me being logged in? Also, you
said everything the normally start and are running before you log in. Does
this include Zone Alarm's vector services, or just whatever is set up in
windows to run, like kernel.exe, etc. I have a few programs like Trillian
and Spybot that load after I log on.

"Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:uwUHr1quEHA.2016@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

> The core OS and any services that are configured to start are running. The
> firewall has a service component so it is running. The network services
> are running so you will have an IP address. Your user profile is not
> loaded, but most of the components of the OS are configured to load when
> the machine comes up, whether or not you actually log on.
> --
> Tom Porterfield
> MS-MVP Windows
> http://support.telop.org
>
> Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.

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