Re: Bug in Windows XP



Michael Bednarek wrote:
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:42:11 +0100, Mimic <dev@null> wrote in alt.2600:

[snip]

Image Name
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svchost.exe

PID
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944

Services
=============================================
AudioSrv, BITS, Browser, CryptSvc, Dhcp, dmserver, EventSystem, lanmanserver, lanmanworkstation, Netman, Nla, RasAuto,
RasMan, Schedule, seclogon, SENS, ShellHWDetection, TapiSrv, TermService, Themes, TrkWks, uploadmgr, W32Time, winmgmt,
wuauserv, WZCSVC


So as you can see, killing svchost.exe pretty much rips the poo hole out of windows :P It actually runs more than that, under a different PID..


Not if you're careful. Here's a guy who managed to run Windows -well,
let's say, not crash it- without running any services apart from System
and csrss (the real one):
<http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/07/running-windows-with-no-services.html>


Yeah i heard about that recently, havent looked into it yet though :P

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