Op de site van Steve Gibson,
http://grc.com/UnPnP/UnPnP.htm kun je -na het aanbrengen van die patch- met een klein programma laten testen of UPnP daadwerkelijk gedisabled staat. Wel heeft GRC.com twijfels of de patch blijvend UPnP uitzet, lees hiervoor het commentaar op de website. Kleine quote:
"JAN 3, 2002: We have received preliminary reports of the UPnP service being silently re-enabled without the users' knowledge or permission. We hope that this is an innocent side-effect of background XP updates, but it is our position that users have the implicit right to decide how their computers operate, and what services they run.
Please keep an eye on this for a while by re-running UnPnP from time to time to check on the "disabled" status. If you find that UPnP has become silently re-enabled on your system, please drop a note to us at support@grc.com. If this behavior is confirmed, we will immediately enhance UnPnP to prevent this silent re-enabling. Our eMail system subscribers will then be notified of this enhancement."
Goed werk weer van Gibson Research Corporation.
Edit: Vage URL