what is eklogin?

[phantasus]

I ran this program that tells me what services are running and what not, and I found this service called eklogin and the desription it gives is Kerberos (v4) encrypted login. Does anyone know what this is and if so what is it and do I need it and so on and so on...

Im running Windows XP Pro, and from some google searches I have done it seems to be a linux type program and I have never installed Linux on this machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[bcastner]

You can disable it from starting. Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services.

 

[phantasus]

bcastner,

It doesn't show up in my list of running services. Do you know what this is? Virus, Backdoor type thing?

Thanks,

 

[bcastner]

No, it is the encrypted Kerberos rlogon.

It can come from:

. enabling 'Simple TCP/IP Services' in Windows Components
. Installing the Windows IVv6 Advanced Networking Pack:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...82-8ce6-4739-97c0-1a52a6f005e4&DisplayLang=en

It is standard in Windows 2003 Server, and I have never heard of it being a security threat, worm or trojan.