Lazyweb Request for Windows Network Connection Daemon

I have been looking for something like this for a long time now. I can’t seem to find anything that does this, and this would be a great opportunity for a developer.

What I want (and what many enterprises need), is a daemon/service on Windows systems that ideally would disable the WiFi connection when plugged in to a wired Ethernet connection. Why is this such a big deal?

Windows XP will continue to announce and allow Ad Hoc connections if you use the SSID of the last access point a Windows host connected to. You can freely associate to Windows systems that /have/ used wireless, even if they currently are not connected to a wireless network.

I’ve been working with wireless IDS/IPS products lately and rogue access points are a big deal to enterprise network managers. Even worse are the hundreds of “valid” devices that can effectively be converted into rogue access points without the users’ knowledge.

Very troubling and a hard problem to solve. Anyone have a fix for this issue?

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