Need to close ALL services on Win2K hosts

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Ramon F Herrera

We have a network of Win2000 PCs which are under a
severa DOS attack. IMHO, the root of the problem is the
confusion -typical of Microsoft OSs- between a client and
a server. These 50+ hosts should be used strictly as clients
in every respect, but the people that set them up originally
left a lot of services open, therefore leaving the machines
vulnerable to all kinds of attacks.

What I'd like to do is take all those servers and convert them
to client-oly by turning of every possible service. The only
thing that they should return is pings and _that's_it_.
A port scan of them should find absolutely no open port.

If I do the above, what kind of trouble should I expect?
Any caveats?

TIA,

-Ramon F. Herrera
(someone who thinks the Sun and Linux should stick
to servers and Microsoft and Apple to clients)
 
-----Original Message-----
We have a network of Win2000 PCs which are under a
severa DOS attack. IMHO, the root of the problem is the
confusion -typical of Microsoft OSs- between a client and
a server. These 50+ hosts should be used strictly as clients
in every respect, but the people that set them up originally
left a lot of services open, therefore leaving the machines
vulnerable to all kinds of attacks.

What I'd like to do is take all those servers and convert them
to client-oly by turning of every possible service. The only
thing that they should return is pings and _that's_it_.
Click to expand...

Go to services and disable the server service. Without
it, the PC will not be able to honor network requests,
share folders, etc.
A port scan of them should find absolutely no open port.
Click to expand...

Easier said than done!
 
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