XP said:What's the downside of deleting the "HelpAssistant" and
"SUPPORT_numbers" accounts from my XP-pro system(s) ?
I mean, do I _REALLY_ need them?
"The Support_388945a0 account enables Help and Support Service
interoperability with signed scripts. This account is primarily
used to control access to signed scripts that are accessible
from within Help and Support Services."
"The Novice computer has a built-in local user account called
HelpAssistant. This account is disabled by default and has a
randomly generated strong password. The account has limited
privileges and is used by the Expert to logon to the Novice
computer during the Remote Assistance session."
HelpAssistant is also named along with "mebroot" malware. Which is
another angle to consider, if it won't behave itself.
Mayayana said:I don't have either of those users on my system to begin with.
I just have my account, guest and admin. I would
never enable remote anything, either, for security reasons.
Do you really need to remove the accounts? Can't you just disable
Remote Desktop, Remote Registry and file sharing?
If you think it's possible to install XP without these remote assistance
or help services being set to automatic by default, I'd like to hear
how. I'm always disabling when I'm got a fresh XP install up and
running.
So basically, for your average "power user" in a home or soho situation,
there's no real downside to deleting those 2 accounts......
If you think it's possible to install XP without these remote assistance
or help services being set to automatic by default, I'd like to hear
how. I'm always disabling when I'm got a fresh XP install up and
running.
I've seen various stripped-down versions, presumably for a routine
application to render at some selectable component level to the
install or customization process -- all of course from dedicated
interests outside normal provisions Microsoft derives from its
products;- within which compliance, conversely, and at some other
abstract layering to means "hardening" processes, no less, are found
readily enough available in FAQ and other presentment forms for a
operable level of understanding or competency. Personally, past what
results I'm able to determine, as well lacking a fuller sense of
understanding in terms of remote networking, ie assistance and support
functions, thankfully and in large I deferred to a latter mention of
specialists;. . .though somewhat stymied in a stigma where I've
indulgently preferred placing my feet, up alongside the desktop
monitor -- having never actually bought into secure networking,
passwords, filesharing, or much else regarding computers not
physically or so in placed for domesticity;. . .the inherent bias,
being, a discrepancy of preclusion [upon a limited but tangible number
of computers operated simultaneously] largely for all but rudimentary
streaming forms, related attendant platforms, and all shared resources
similarly not within cognizant form I'm first able to isolate from all
outside contact. To an end, if ever were I permanently to shut off my
modem, I should then know exactly what I can, or not, do within a
reasonable assumption, of course, a hardware platform permits. Purist
reductivism if considered from a vantage of computer programs first
offered as applicable to constraints normally outside budget
considerations, modems then being a speed-constrained restriction to
determinate aims since vastly amplified over a greater apportionment
of marketing and business models for expanding proprietary control
theorems, to a presumption, as it were, indeed I ought buy into their
future interests.
GMAN said:I've seen various stripped-down versions, presumably for a routineIf you think it's possible to install XP without these remote assistance
or help services being set to automatic by default, I'd like to hear
how. I'm always disabling when I'm got a fresh XP install up and
running.
application to render at some selectable component level to the
install or customization process -- all of course from dedicated
interests outside normal provisions Microsoft derives from its
products;- within which compliance, conversely, and at some other
abstract layering to means "hardening" processes, no less, are found
readily enough available in FAQ and other presentment forms for a
operable level of understanding or competency. Personally, past what
results I'm able to determine, as well lacking a fuller sense of
understanding in terms of remote networking, ie assistance and support
functions, thankfully and in large I deferred to a latter mention of
specialists;. . .though somewhat stymied in a stigma where I've
indulgently preferred placing my feet, up alongside the desktop
monitor -- having never actually bought into secure networking,
passwords, filesharing, or much else regarding computers not
physically or so in placed for domesticity;. . .the inherent bias,
being, a discrepancy of preclusion [upon a limited but tangible number
of computers operated simultaneously] largely for all but rudimentary
streaming forms, related attendant platforms, and all shared resources
similarly not within cognizant form I'm first able to isolate from all
outside contact. To an end, if ever were I permanently to shut off my
modem, I should then know exactly what I can, or not, do within a
reasonable assumption, of course, a hardware platform permits. Purist
reductivism if considered from a vantage of computer programs first
offered as applicable to constraints normally outside budget
considerations, modems then being a speed-constrained restriction to
determinate aims since vastly amplified over a greater apportionment
of marketing and business models for expanding proprietary control
theorems, to a presumption, as it were, indeed I ought buy into their
future interests.
WTF?
Do you really need to remove the accounts? Can't you just disable
Remote Desktop, Remote Registry and file sharing?
I figure the fewer accounts, the better.