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Refalm:
quote:Originally posted by Midnight Candidate/BOB:
What's the point of running Quality of Service anyway, both in theory and in reality?
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Are you serious? :eek:
Quality of Service is a requirement for large networks.
Aloone_Jonez:
quote:Originally posted by Midnight Candidate/BOB:
Jesus Christ. Okay, you *HAVE* to prove this one.
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The firewall that we have reports that an unrecognised module svchost.exe is trying to access the internet and xxx.xxx.xxx ip address, I typed the IP address into MS internet explorer (dumbass IT dept won
Refalm:
quote:Originally posted by Aloone:
Also Windows doesn't let you kill it, it says, "access is denied" - all I know is it's part of the operating system and is also accessing an IP address without my permission!
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Not entirely true. If you got local admin rights (not on Windows XP Home) you can disable it.
The PC will then reboot in 60 seconds.
Aloone_Jonez:
Oh sorry, the computer at works runs Windows 2000 not XP. Anyway it's set up with one administrator account.
Once scvhost.exe did crash and Windows carried on running, you just couldn't use the clipboard and some features in other programs were unavailable.
Orethrius:
quote:Originally posted by Refalm / BOB:
Not entirely true. If you got local admin rights (not on Windows XP Home) you can disable it.
The PC will then reboot in 60 seconds.
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Sounds to me like Aloone is trapped on a craprate (oops, I mean corporate) system running Home. That, or he's been infected by Klez. Aloone, my apologies, but when you start accusing the right arm of Windows of wrongdoing when the only proof you have is what sounds like the dialing-out of the fake svchost.exe created by Klez, I just see a giant donkey forming before my eyes (if you catch my drift). You might check out some of the free removal utilities floating around out there, I'd have to Google those (hint hint) to find them again though. Oh, and Refalm, I meant "what's the point of QoS" on a small home network, not a large corporate intranet.
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