WBEM

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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!
 
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"
 
Well today when I started I got an error message saying
INCD was already running. I do have it installed but I
can't see why XP would try to start it twice.

Before that I was concerned that the Symantec "System"
logs kept saying "IP address 192.X.X.X has disappeared
and is no longer being protected." I'm not sure if this
is a normal log entry for a firewall but it doesn't sound
very good.

Sometimes when I shutdown I would get an error message
saying that the DDE Server was not responding.

And I am sure that I saw a log entry in the WBEM logs
bout writing to a CD when I hadn't done anything like
that.

The reason I ask is that the company most likely to want
to know what is on my PC would think it was fun to jump
through hoops to do it.

Thanks for your response, Roger
 
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