[TChris]

I call BS.

There are no such services as "CMDLINE" or "WOWCMDLINE" in Windows, nor any reasonable variations that I could think of.

[ShadowAce]

I’m running Windows XP SP3, and the keys are there as listed in the post above.

[TChris]

OK, I blame the author's misuse of the term "service". In Windows, that word has a very specific meaning, and what he was talking about is NOT it.

The VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) is NOT a Windows Service, it's a subsystem. The two "service" names he lists are actually Windows registry values in the WOW key, as described.

I'm not buying that this is a huge security hole, else every Windows machine would be compromised by now, and (all jokes aside) they are not.

Smells like another Windows-bashing rant to me.

[MarkL]

I call BS.

There are no such services as "CMDLINE" or "WOWCMDLINE" in Windows, nor any reasonable variations that I could think of.

It's not a Windows service itself, but a built in part of the ntvdm subsystem. It was built in as part of MS-DOS compatibility mode.

Mark

[Texas Jack]

There are no such services as "CMDLINE" or "WOWCMDLINE" in Windows, nor any reasonable variations that I could think of.

I'm running Vista Home Premium and followed the author's instructions. I got to the WOW folder in the Registry but my OS does not have the CMDLINE or WOWCMDLINE keys.

So you may be right.