I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something

Re:I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something by asveikau on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:08AM (#23319299)

I am ex msft. I have written windows code in kernel mode. I know that there are acls. I know about psexec too. I was not talking about any of that, but Task Manager as this thread was about.

Personally if I were killing with psexec I would try invoking taskkill.exe.

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Re:I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something by KiwiJohnno on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:42AM (#23319718)

Ah, ok, sorry I was just trying to be helpful, I wasn't trying to teach you to suck eggs :)

But my main point was (that I implied, but I didn't say) is yes, I remember killing off early versions of microsoft security essentials (when that was its name) with task manager too. Logically, back then the process didn't have a restricted ACL, but it now does.

I didn't actually know you could specify the system user when killing a process with taskkill, thanks

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