Shutting Down Unneeded Services
One important countermeasure to combat malicious software is to minimize the amount of software that is run on your system. Windows XP and Windows 2000 offer a lot of services, many of which are enabled by default even when they're not needed. If a service or application isn't necessary, why allow it to run? Stopping or disabling unnecessary processes can improve performance and enhance security.
A service is a program that runs continuously in the background, processing requests from other programs or from the network. You don't interact directly with services, the way you might interact with an application such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel. Instead, you usually configure the behavior of services through ...
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