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<blockquote data-quote="Andy Ful" data-source="post: 800495" data-attributes="member: 32260"><p>It does not matter much if you tick or untick bitsadmin.exe, because this firewall rule cannot prevent the download initiated by bitsadmin.exe via malicious scripts, and cannot also create problems with Windows Updates. The executable bitsadmin.exe initiates the download via svchost.exe and BITS, so firewall can see/block only svchost.exe. The firewall rule for bitsadmin.exe can only work, when the malicious code is injected to bitsadmin.exe, and this malicious code wants to use the Internet connection in another way than BITS. But, using bitsadmin.exe in this way would be rather improbable.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite130" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy Ful, post: 800495, member: 32260"] It does not matter much if you tick or untick bitsadmin.exe, because this firewall rule cannot prevent the download initiated by bitsadmin.exe via malicious scripts, and cannot also create problems with Windows Updates. The executable bitsadmin.exe initiates the download via svchost.exe and BITS, so firewall can see/block only svchost.exe. The firewall rule for bitsadmin.exe can only work, when the malicious code is injected to bitsadmin.exe, and this malicious code wants to use the Internet connection in another way than BITS. But, using bitsadmin.exe in this way would be rather improbable.(y) [/QUOTE]
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