In W2K it is a necessary Windows file.  If it were XP it would be asking from svchost.exe 
which is a generic hosting process for other running services.

Not to say that it can't become infected which is a different story and it would 
act differently, but you can't stop it and expect Windows to be fully functional 
in this case.

Zonealarm isn't all that smart sometimes.  I stopped using it some years ago due 
to their slow response to bugs with some of my programs.  They are just erroring 
on the side of caution I suppose.  In W2K I have never observed it allow services.exe 
out of the box, even on a fresh clean system.







On Friday, May 2, 2008 at 1:26 am, George Bailey wrote:

>This frequently requires internet access and is not recognised by Zonealarm. I've 

>seen it on other w2k PCs.

>If denied,no Internet explorer can be brought up.

>Is this a Microsoft file or some bug.

>No virus comes up on virus scan or Adware 

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