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RE: W2k: Unkillable Applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wannemacher, Eric)
Tue Jul 17 12:42:14 2001
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From: "Wannemacher, Eric" <EricW@metatec.com>
To: "'BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM'" <BUGTRAQ@securityfocus.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 11:40:03 -0400
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SysInternals' (http://www.sysinternals.com) pskill utility will happily kill
winlogon.exe and services.exe. Killing winlogon will blue screen the
machine so be careful.
-----Original Message-----
From: Snow, Corey [mailto:CSNOW@ddpwa.com]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 5:06 PM
To: Bugtraq Mailing List
Subject: RE: W2k: Unkillable Applications
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.
