Security+ QOTD: It’s a serviceable issue…

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Security+ Question of the day: What is the conventional name for the service that has been stopped and disabled in the figure? (see answer below and video response.)

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Answer

Mpssvc is the service name associated with the Windows Firewall. In the figure I’m using the sc stop command to stop the service, and the sc config command to change the startup type to disabled.

Video answer: