stopping a service (hacking)

[dooahhdoo]

Hi guys and gals. I need some advice.
We have an NT 4 machine with service pack 5 on our network. This is a dedicated machine and only runs black ice defender and bandwidth management software. For as long as I can remember black ice has been set on cautious which blocks some traffic. Recently we have seen our management software just stop for no apparent reason, the machine has not hung, the software is still running but we have no traffic management. We try to stop the service and it reports the service is not started so we restart the service and it starts working again.

We have now turned up the settings on black ice to paranoid and the software seems to be reliable.
So, is it possible to remotely hack a machine like this and to stop a service?
No details please but is it possible?

 

[NEVERSLEEP]

maybe its physical hackers ...
someone knowledge ends where
someone else knowledge starts

 

[wimvanherp]

I do not know the details (so I will not publish them) but as it is possible to stop a service remotely (server manager), you only (...) need to have an administrator user and password. Wim Vanherp
Wim.Vanherp@belgacom.net