Re: Do not allow taskmanager to close my app - C# Discussion Boards

13-Jan-09 6:55

Hi guys!

Im trying to detect when a user "kills" my c# app using windows task
manager(so i can prevent it), i've tried with the form events _closing and _closed managing but it won't satisfy me
any one got any idea?
tancs

EliottA13-Jan-09 6:58

13-Jan-09 6:58

Yeah, you can try giving up, quitting or obtaining common sense.

spiritboy13-Jan-09 7:06

13-Jan-09 7:06

what do u mean? what are those programs working like some of antiviruses that doesn't allow users to kill them from taskmanager?

Not Active13-Jan-09 7:08

Not Active

13-Jan-09 7:08

Their called services

only two letters away from being an asset

spiritboy13-Jan-09 7:13

13-Jan-09 7:13

so there is a solution, but if u know where should i start?

EliottA13-Jan-09 7:24

13-Jan-09 7:24

They never researched how to "share" keyboards and mouses in their "office"

Stop trying, you lose.

#realJSOP13-Jan-09 7:53

13-Jan-09 7:53

Those are all utilities that come with Windows. I think they're in the GetAFuckinClue folder.

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Chris Maunder13-Jan-09 12:33

Chris Maunder

13-Jan-09 12:33

Watch the language, please. Inappropriate and unhelpful.

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#realJSOP13-Jan-09 23:32

13-Jan-09 23:32

Did someone rat me out, or do you check all of my posts as a matter of course? Smile | :)

Chris Maunder13-Jan-09 23:46

Chris Maunder

13-Jan-09 23:46

37% of our overall processing power is devoted to tracking everything you do.

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#realJSOP14-Jan-09 1:31

14-Jan-09 1:31

I thought it was more than that. Smile | :)

Scott Dorman14-Jan-09 9:06

Scott Dorman

14-Jan-09 9:06

Only 37%, seems low doesn't it? Smile | :)

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#realJSOP14-Jan-09 9:50

14-Jan-09 9:50

They've probably got an 8-core system watching all of the forums (except the VB forums of course), and a custom event is triggered whenever I write a message, and it continues to be sent until someone looks at the message in question. Sometimes, just to screw with them, I write a lot of single-word messages just hoping to bring their event manager to its knees. Smile | :)

dan!sh 13-Jan-09 7:07

dan!sh

13-Jan-09 7:07

This reminds of either a NT service or a virus. What is your application?

The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."

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spiritboy13-Jan-09 7:09

13-Jan-09 7:09

it is a kind of viewer app over the network, it simply manages computers and communicate with the central server,
like a class viewer.
so i dont want the users to close the client!

dan!sh 13-Jan-09 7:20

dan!sh

13-Jan-09 7:20

Still suspicious. Create something like the NT services.

The word "politics" describes the process so well: "Poli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures."

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MidwestLimey13-Jan-09 9:24

MidwestLimey

13-Jan-09 9:24

If the machine's user has the prerequisite knowledge on how to terminate a process, your process is toast. Nothing you can do.

You could use a service to respawn it, but if the service is knobled first you're screwed again.

If it is a client/server network app then use a heartbeat of some kind to detect machines with the "class viewer" no longer active and report it to the admin.

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Dan Neely13-Jan-09 9:48

Dan Neely

13-Jan-09 9:48

If the users don't have admin privileges start it automatically with a service in an account that does and restart it as needed*. If they have admin privileges there's nothing you can do.

* in theory you could have the GUI in the service itself, but that's not a good idea, since Bad Things happen when your service tries to create a GUI object when no one's logged in and there isn't a desktop to create it on.

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spiritboy13-Jan-09 7:16

13-Jan-09 7:16

is it ok to catch a newProcess_event and run the code below?

foreach (System.Diagnostics.Process p in System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses())
            {
                if (p.ProcessName == "taskmgr")
                    p.Kill();
            }

but the question is that how i can look for the newProcess_event ? Smile | :)

EliottA13-Jan-09 7:26

13-Jan-09 7:26

If you think people wont notice that they can't open task manager then you're mistaken. You're not going to get help, or succeed.

spiritboy13-Jan-09 7:29

13-Jan-09 7:29

i dont think this was an answer, do u have a better solution?

EliottA13-Jan-09 7:30

13-Jan-09 7:30

Yes, accept failure and quit trying. You clearly have malicious intent, no one is going to help you, what don't you understand?

spiritboy13-Jan-09 7:43