A user of my computer dawnloaded limeware and azureus. I have 4 services
listed related to peer networks that i am unfamiliar with and I would like to
know whether they are likely to be related to the intallation of this
software, or whether they could innocently be related to my home network
(workgroup setup). The services are: peer name resolution, peer networking,
peer networking group identification, and peer networking identity manager.
These services are password protected, unlike my other services, and the
"stop" option is grayed out in properties. I am the administrator. I don't
remember putting a password on the home network and these services are not
listed on my laptop, which is a part of my home network. If they are
associated with the software, I would like to delete them, but I don't know
how. Can anyone help?

I can't help with why/who might have installed it, only a suggestion for
finding when it was added, by exporting the key from regedit to a txt file*.
If you know when the software was installed, e.g. from the install folder
create date, it might help.

* In the Services snap-in, double-click the suspicious service and look on
the General tab for Service Name. In regedit, locate its registry key under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\<the Service Name>,
Right-click on that key, select Export, enter a file name and be sure to set
"Save As Type" to "Text Files (*.txt)" before saving. Open the file with
notepad and find "Last Write Time" for that key.


"Dawnflute" wrote:

> A user of my computer dawnloaded limeware and azureus. I have 4 services
> listed related to peer networks that i am unfamiliar with and I would like to
> know whether they are likely to be related to the intallation of this
> software, or whether they could innocently be related to my home network
> (workgroup setup). The services are: peer name resolution, peer networking,
> peer networking group identification, and peer networking identity manager.
> These services are password protected, unlike my other services, and the
> "stop" option is grayed out in properties. I am the administrator. I don't
> remember putting a password on the home network and these services are not
> listed on my laptop, which is a part of my home network. If they are
> associated with the software, I would like to delete them, but I don't know
> how. Can anyone help?