RE: W2k: Unkillable Applications

["Frank Breedijk" <FrankB () InterXion com>]

Chad,

> This does sound like a bug in the Task Manager,
> and maybe there are MINOR security implications
> in the fact that the Task Manager tells the
> administrator "This is a critical system process"
> when it's not...but the fact that the system
> administrator is trying to kill the process
> seems to suggest that he already knows otherwise.

I tend to disagree with you. When somebody mails a joke (e.g. VHold.exe)
quite often the only way to kill such a process is by going into
taskmanager.

> I'm sure they could have told you that an administrator
> can end system processes by right clicking on them and
> choosing "Debug" and then ending the process. 

That feature is only available on systems with a debugger installed.
Mine isn't

> Not sure what happens when you have no just-in-time
> debugger installed.

No debug ability then.

MZZL,
Frank