RE: W2k: Unkillable Applications

From: Wannemacher, Eric (EricWat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 08:40:03 PDT

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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:CSNOWat_private] 
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.

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