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how to STOP remote shutdown
a co-worker of mine likes to remotely reboot my PC. he does this with some VBScript. I know it can be turned off, and other resources i have found say it as somthing to do with the RPC service. Is this safe to turn off? Any other solution to stopping him from remotely shutting down my pc?
thanks.
thanks.
ASKER
it is not a virus.. i know this..
i have XP on my machine and it is NOT through remote desktop. he can shut down ANY NT/2000/XP machine. i am 99% sure it has to to with RPC (remote procedure call). I just dont know how to stop it.
i have XP on my machine and it is NOT through remote desktop. he can shut down ANY NT/2000/XP machine. i am 99% sure it has to to with RPC (remote procedure call). I just dont know how to stop it.
they all have remote shutdown, but you need admin privileges. If he has domain admin privileges, he can do it. You may want to let your domain admin know
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ok, i removed all users from being able to remotely shut down my pc.
If it works.. you get the points Flash828.
thanks
If it works.. you get the points Flash828.
thanks
my pleasure
you can attempt a remote shutdown against yourself if you like... If you are using Windows XP the "shutdown -i" command will do the identical operation in a gui interface (no -i will allow you to do it via command prompt).
ASKER
trying the "shutdown -m \\<computername>" from another computer with XP it said access denied. If this still stops the way he was doing it, you got the points. i wont know till tomarrow when i get back to work.
thanks
thanks
ASKER
it worked! he is even the domain admin and still cant shut me down!
Thanks man!
Thanks man!
Haha... no problem
the trick is to figure out how he/she is exicuting the script
remote desktop? some other remote control software?
try zonealarm
www.zonelabs.com