Are these normal system events, or result of malware?

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#1

After having booted in safe mode, I noticed these entries in system events viewer:

DCOM got error “This service cannot be started in safe mode"attempting to start the service EventSystem with arguments” in order to run the server. {1BE1F766-5536-11D1-B726-00C04FB926AF}

DCOM got error “This service cannot be started in safe mode"attempting to start the service netman with arguments” in order to run the server. {BA126AE5-2166-11D1-B1D0-00805FC1270E}

I’m aware that “netman” has to do with managing network connections, and in safe mode network is disabled. But the term “server” throws me off; does it literally mean it is trying to run a server or establish connection to one? I’m running XP Pro SP3, and my system shouldn’t be connecting to any servers.

Could someone shed some light on this?

#2

DCOM stands for Distributed Component Object Model. COM it’s basically the replacement for OLE. Whilst it’s true the COM objects can be run across the network - Distributed COM - they also work locally. That is, one COM object can be acting as a server for a client COM object on the same computer.