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Why is Dism.exe running? Security Quirks
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<blockquote data-quote="AtlBo" data-source="post: 330047" data-attributes="member: 32547"><p>There are pending updates from last month. I tend to wait a month or so and let big business run with the updates before installing them at home. Could this be the reason they are running?</p><p></p><p>Oh, by the way, there is not a Deployment Imaging and Service Management service listed in the W7 Pro 64 services here. It is a service in one sense, but really only a tool, I believe.</p><p></p><p>I was just watching this video, and it seems to me this could be very dangerous:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]gI6qa-LIOTk[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p>The reason I say so is that if someone could access a PC, they could easily lift an image of the installation on the PC and mount it on their own PC. From there, they could easily view the contents of the drive, and even make changes and redeploy it.</p><p></p><p>I received the first alerts of dism.exe and dismhost.exe running on this PC from PF yesterday. Today, I have blanket disallowed the tool from functioning. However, it does run from command line. I think PF should still block this.</p><p></p><p>As I type, the processes are still running. I am waiting to see if it activates at which time I should get an alert from PF I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtlBo, post: 330047, member: 32547"] There are pending updates from last month. I tend to wait a month or so and let big business run with the updates before installing them at home. Could this be the reason they are running? Oh, by the way, there is not a Deployment Imaging and Service Management service listed in the W7 Pro 64 services here. It is a service in one sense, but really only a tool, I believe. I was just watching this video, and it seems to me this could be very dangerous: [MEDIA=youtube]gI6qa-LIOTk[/MEDIA] The reason I say so is that if someone could access a PC, they could easily lift an image of the installation on the PC and mount it on their own PC. From there, they could easily view the contents of the drive, and even make changes and redeploy it. I received the first alerts of dism.exe and dismhost.exe running on this PC from PF yesterday. Today, I have blanket disallowed the tool from functioning. However, it does run from command line. I think PF should still block this. As I type, the processes are still running. I am waiting to see if it activates at which time I should get an alert from PF I think. [/QUOTE]
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