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Re: Win2K Local DoS?
From: Alexander Sanda <as () PSA AT>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:14:13 +0200
At 05:29 03.08.2000 -0700, Kevin Stephenson wrote:
I ran services.exe from the run box, and it took my load up to 100%. Checking the task list, there were 2 services.exe and Win2K would not allow me to kill either process. The one I spawned was running at 99% of load. I then started up another 10 services.exe processes. Eventually, the load spread to about 33% over 3 of the processes. I don't see a way to kill these processes without a reboot. Have a nice day.
This is only because task manager doesn't let you terminate "critical system processes" (services.exe beeing one of them). With some other utility (e.g. the process viewer coming with the resource kit or Visual C++) you can safely kill this process. And there is absolutely no reason for services.exe beeing executable by normal users (although, the standard permissions set by the Win2k installation disagree here ;) ).
Current thread:
- Win2K Local DoS? Kevin Stephenson (Aug 03)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? Dimitry Andric (Aug 03)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? Alexander Sanda (Aug 03)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? LordRaYden (Aug 05)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? Oliver Friedrichs (Aug 03)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? Maxime Rousseau (Aug 05)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? Dimitry Andric (Aug 05)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? Kevin Stephenson (Aug 06)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? Mikael Olsson (Aug 08)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? Nicolas Rachinsky (Aug 09)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? Dimitry Andric (Aug 05)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? pantera (Aug 05)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? bfiero (Aug 09)
- Re: Win2K Local DoS? Timothy J. Miller (Aug 10)