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Re: W2k: Unkillable Applications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Nelson)
Tue Jul 17 12:47:19 2001
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Reply-To: "Justin Nelson" <devnull@jm4n.com>
From: "Justin Nelson" <security@jm4n.com>
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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 12:20:33 -0400
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> cannot confirm that. I renamed one of my applications to
> Winlogon.exe and succeeded to kill it without any problem
> with taskmanager.
Under Windows 2000 Pro, I made a copy of "notepad.exe" renamed to
"winlogon.exe", and could not kill it via the Task Manager. Both the 'kill'
command and the VC++ debugger were able to kill it.
Help-->About in Task Manager shows Windows version 5.0, build 2195, SP2.
- Justin Nelson
