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RE: security implications of disabling WMI service

from [Mark Ribbans] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: RE: security implications of disabling WMI service
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:13:14 +0930 

I'm not sure of the security implications of disabling the service, however
you might like to look at just disabling the logging component of WMI (if
enabled) as a workaround. I have seen performance issues related to very
verbose logging done by WMI.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/
logging_wmi_activity.asp

Regards,
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@securityfocus.com [mailto:listbounce@securityfocus.com] On
Behalf Of Murda Mcloud
Sent: Monday, 9 October 2006 8:25 AM
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Subject: security implications of disabling WMI service



Hi, we have a user with a laptop whose machine has had performance issues
which we've tracked down to the WMI service. As a temporary fix I have
turned off the service and now everything works fine. It seems to be that
something when starting up is using WMI and slowing things down.

Does anyone know of a definitive list of MS security related
applications/functions that use WMI?
I know that scripts etc won't run.
 



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