Handles unexpected program termination

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Hi. can someone help me or give me an idea on how to detect if my running program was terminated by some kind of interruption? let say im running program_1 and some nasty people use command prompt or went to task manager and end process my program... i want to handle this kind of situation... i bought an api that disable the alt control del command, but the thing is what if that person use a batch file to terminate my program... how am i suppose to handle that kind of situation? any idea?

Posted 23-Aug-11 18:19pm

Madzmar25

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Most likely, your solution will be the Kiosk Mode.

Please see:
Running a Web Site in Kiosk Mode with C#[^],
c# program ctrl-alt-del screen windows 7[^].

—SA

Posted 23-Aug-11 19:06pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Simon Bang Terkildsen · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-23T18:43:00

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This is far from my area of expertise, but I don't think you can prevent anyone from terminating your application, if they really want to.

May I ask why you would want to do that?! I mean if I can't terminate an application when I want to, then I have no doubt that it is malware.

Posted 23-Aug-11 18:43pm

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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Madzmar25 24-Aug-11 0:48am

Im creating a internet cafe management system... and i was trying to hack my own system and i found out a loop hole that i can create a batch file and terminate the processes that keeps my program running... so im trying to find a way of handling this issue... if the hacker was able to find out what is the file name of my program that keeps my management system running then i should have a safety net to reopen my program when they try to close it, or maybe when they try to close it i would restart the computer so that when the computer boots up to the desktop its back to normal settings... that way when they try to close my program i can reopen it without any problem...

Simon Bang Terkildsen 24-Aug-11 0:53am

ah yeah it is you with all the user restricting questions :D
Like I said it's not my area of expertise, while I said you can't prevent it, there is ofcourse (as always) a way to do it somehow, it's just a matter of how many dev hours you wanna put into it. Sadly I can't point you in any particular direction.
You have to hope that one of the "punch cards"-guys can give you a hack.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Aug-11 1:08am

My 5. You're absolutely right -- it's too late to prevent termination of the process; it can be terminated unconditionally; also, it's not possible to intercept Alt+Control+Del even with global system hook, by apparent reason -- OS treats this key combination in a special way. So, the real solution must be using the Kiosk Mode, and hardly anything else.
I provided some reference, please see my solution.
--SA

Simon Bang Terkildsen 24-Aug-11 1:10am

Thank you for confirming that. And +5 for the nice links :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Aug-11 3:21am

Thank you.
--SA

Madzmar25 24-Aug-11 1:25am

yeah i guess so... what i did what browse through the net and found this one guy selling his dll that have a gina.dll modified and it was able to disable the ctrl+alt+del... i looked for something to disable the alt + ctrl + del but the only solution i found was to program it using c++ and modify gina.dll.... i dont know c++ so i took the risk of buying his dll for $100... well its worth it and it disable windows keys and ctrl+ alt + del...now my only problem is how to intervene any undesired program termination like batch file or any java program... but anyways i really appreciate your reply

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Aug-11 3:24am

No way to cancel the termination; anything can be terminated. Learn about Kiosk Mode; I think this is your only chance (however, it may not justify your $100 expense... :-).
--SA