How to give permission to windows service in C#? (Make access denied if try to stop service)

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I want to create windows service in c# which have special permission,

if other program or user directly try to kill or stop service then message will show "access denied".

some anti virus program use this type approach.
please provide any sample.

What I have tried:

i tried everything but not success

Posted 15-Jun-17 2:06am

gautamkhatri428

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[no name] 15-Jun-17 8:23am

Not really sure, but I think this is more a thing which should be solved by windows policy

F-ES Sitecore 15-Jun-17 8:36am

People who write viruses and other malicious apps would love to do this too. Thankfully it's not possible.

gautamkhatri428 15-Jun-17 8:39am

why it is not possible, try to download avira antivirus and try to kill avira services

Richard Deeming 15-Jun-17 10:36am

It is possible to set an ACL on a service, although there doesn't seem to be a GUI to do it.
Service Security and Access Rights[^]
How do I grant start/stop/restart permissions on a service to an arbitrary user or group on a non-domain-member server? | ServerFault[^]

But I doubt you'd be able to prevent an administrator from stopping the service.

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