Windows Worms Doors Cleaner features :

Main features :
- disabling the critical windows services used by the worms
- closing so indirectly the critical ports

Aditional ones :
- displays the local opened ports
- runnable with command line parameters
- check at start the name of running processes (to detect famous worms)
- check svchost memory usage


How does it works ?

Windows Worms Doors Cleaner detects the enabled services by checking registry entries, the local open ports, and the running services.
To disable something, it only modifies existing registry entries, it doesn't install anything nor modify any files.


Command line parameters :

The command line parameters allow administrators to use Windows Worms Doors Cleaner from batch scripts or from other programs they develop.
Thus they can automatically, by running a scheduled task for instance, disable all the services they want on a whole network without having to go on each computer manually.

A home user can use the command line parameters too to check at every windows startup that the services he wants to check are still disabled, because these ones can be enabled again by installing a software or by using windows update.
With them you can too control the behaviour of Windows Worms Doors Cleaner and to disable for instance the worms checking when launching the program.

disabling/enabling services :
-dcom:enable/disable
-locator:enable/disable
-netbios:enable/disable/manual
-upnp:disable/enable
-messenger:disable/enable

WWDC startup options :
-startup:dcom,locator,netbios,messenger,upnp
-nowormscheck

Misc :
-reboot:yes/no


Examples :

To start WWDC without worms checking at start, create a shortcut like this :
"C:\...\wwdc.exe" -nowormscheck

To check at every Windows startup that DCOM and Locator are disabled, create the following shortcut and put it on the autostart folder :
"C:\...\wwdc.exe" -startup:dcom,locator

To call WWDC from a script to make it disabling Messenger and UPNP, add the following line on a batch file :
C:\...your_path\wwdc.exe -messenger:disable -upnp:disable


Advices :

If you start from scratch, by formating and doing a fresh install, it is strongly adviced to use Windows Worms Doors Cleaner before to connect to the Internet, and before installing any firewall.
Then, after a reboot, you can either first install your firewall or connect directly to the Internet to update your OS via Windows update.

don't forget to check after each update/reboot that the critical services are still disabled

While doing updates, any program you install or above all any windows update can enable these critical services again, so be carefull to not connect to the Internet which such services enabled, it would be frustrating to do all again from scratch.