[DUG] Hiding from Task Manager

[Ross Levis]

There must be methods to prevent a task being killed.  My Avast anti-virus
software cannot be killed in the Task manager.  It says access denied.
Probably a system service or something like that.

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz] On
Behalf Of Paul Heinz
Sent: Friday, 20 May 2011 3:07 PM
To: rchan at compuspec.com; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] Hiding from Task Manager

Rodney wrote: 
> I am developing an application which I don't want the user to 
> kill it from Task Manager.  Is there anyway to hide it from 
> the processes tab?
>
> Remark: I've already hide it from Applications tab.

No, there isn't a legitimate means (i.e. API) for that and that's by
design. The principle being that it's the users machine and they are
meant to choose what runs and what doesn't.

There are illegitimate means such as writing a rootkit (i.e. a piece of
malware) to hide processes but that will likely get your application
blacklisted by modern antivirus software.

Cheers,
  Paul.

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