Re: WBEM

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 05/03/04 

Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 00:39:22 -0700

WBEM, now-a-day called WMI, is a core service used
by the OS itself for an increasing number of things.
You would need to go through hoops to enable an outside
entity to use WMI remotely on your machine, and even
then it would require use of an account defined on your
machine (unless you really, really passed through hoops).
You will find a couple services with Win Mgmt type names,
that are WMI's services. Stopping them will incapacitate
some things but will not totally cripple the system.

Perhaps you should define "straange things" 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"Rael" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:678501c42e8a$0bd8ab10$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Could somebody using WBEM to monitor my PC?
>
> I don't see any reason why this service should be running
> and creating logs on my PC.
>
> My PC also does some straange things at shutdown.
> Nortons, Spybot, Adaware all find nothing but i have this
> sneaking suspicion somebody out there is in here.
>
> Can I shut down WBEM services? How would I do that?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>