In my last story I originally stated “With Windows, unless I deploy a host-based firewall, it is difficult if not impossible to disable unnecessary services” I based this assessment on previous experiences where it was difficult to get a “clean” netstat output (meaning no unnecessary listening services) Getting to this point, as described by books like Securing Windows NT/2000 Servers for the Internet, was difficult. After reading the guide, I changed my original Blog entry to say “with Windows it’s difficult to disable all unnecessary services.””]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2004/09/excellent-windows-service-minimization.html