Xp sp2 not as secure as people think

[Greg R]

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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You need to read...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2chngs.mspx
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Greg R wrote:
> 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