DCOM in XP

[David Devnish]

I have heard that XP does not need this DCOM that the
recent viruses have been using to infect us all.

Is this true and how do I uninstall it?

Thanks.

David.

 

[Marc Liron]

David,

DCOM is not something you can "uninstall" BUT it can and
SHOULD be disabled...

There is NO NEED for it in Windows XP!

More information at:

http://www.updatexp.com/dcom-windows-xp.html

Hope this helps.

Kind Regards

Marc Liron
www.updatexp.com

 

[purplehaz]

Speak for yourself. I take care of hundreds of computers, households and
businesses, and not one of them got any of the recent virus. If you have an
up to date AV program and a running firewall, then you have absolutely no
reason to even worry or think about dcom. Secure your computer instead of
disabling things.

 

[sli]

I have heard that XP does not need this DCOM that the
recent viruses have been using to infect us all.

Is this true and how do I uninstall it?

Thanks.

David.

An easy way to do it here, http://grc.com/dcom/ and you can turn it back on
in the unlikely event you should ever need it.

 

[sli]

Speak for yourself. I take care of hundreds of computers, households
and businesses, and not one of them got any of the recent virus. If
you have an up to date AV program and a running firewall, then you
have absolutely no reason to even worry or think about dcom. Secure
your computer instead of disabling things.

Pretentious advice. It's not an either/or situation. You can secure your
computer AND disable many, many unnecessary things including dcom and many
services. Few systems need even half the services that are started by
default.

 

[purplehaz]

Pretentious advice. It's not an either/or situation. You can secure your
computer AND disable many, many unnecessary things including dcom and many
services. Few systems need even half the services that are started by
default.

Yes, you can safely disable unneeded things, but most users don't know how,
let alone know what to disable. If home users have an AV program and
firewall then they don't really need to worry about disabling things to
protect themselves from exploits. A proper patched and protected computer
will fair just fine on the net. Also, the computers now-a-days are plenty
strong to run all the default services whether they are needed or not. Why
disable them if you get no real performance gain and your protected security
wise. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Of course if users listened to my
advice I'd put myself out of business. Lots of probs I fix are because a
user tried to disable something that Joes, second cousins, mother said could
have a problem if the sun was shinning that day. To many users doing things
they need not to be doing. The computer runs fine as default, just secure it
down with av and firewall and stay patched at windows update.