RE: W2k: Unkillable Applications

["Andy Cristina" <acristina () penta-corp com>]

Greetings!  I created a simple win32 app named winlogon.exe... in win2k Adv
Server, I could end it as an application/task, but not as a process.  Maybe
this clears things up a bit...

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Nelson [mailto:security () jm4n com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 9:21 AM
To: bugtraq () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: W2k: Unkillable Applications


> 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