[21572] in bugtraq
RE: W2k: Unkillable Applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kaido Karner)
Tue Jul 17 12:36:47 2001
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From: "Kaido Karner" <kaido@tradenet.ee>
To: "Bugtraq Mailing List" <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
Cc: "Snow, Corey" <CSNOW@ddpwa.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:42:50 +0200
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> I can confirm this; I created a simple Win32 app named "Winlogon.exe" and
> Task Manager refused to terminate it. However, I discovered something
> interesting: Microsoft's "kill" utility will terminate the faux
> winlogon.exe, but will not terminate the real one.
cannot confirm that. I renamed one of my applications to Winlogon.exe and
succeeded to kill it without any problem with taskmanager.
kaido
