Prevent other processes from killing me

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Hello,

How can I use access rights to prevent other processes from killing my process?
I want it to be compatible with all operating systems.
We used SetKernelObjectSecurity API in order to deny TERMINATE_PROCESS access but my process is still killable.

Thank you.

Posted 15-Apr-12 2:29am

lilyNaz

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Albert Holguin 15-Apr-12 21:53pm

Why would you want a process that you can't kill? Sounds fishy to me...

lilyNaz 16-Apr-12 0:42am

I am writing some sort of anti-virus and I need to protect my process. Like other anti-viruses, I need mine to be unkillable as much as possible.

Albert Holguin 16-Apr-12 19:11pm

Follow solution 1... it's what most people do.

Aescleal 16-Apr-12 5:50am

Either fishy or he doesn't realise that it'll take more than a user mode process to protect a system. Let's assume he's just naive for now.

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Code-o-mat · Answer 1 · 2012-04-15T05:26:00

Solution 1

There is no way -or at least no "legal" way- to make a process unkillable. What you could try to do is make a second process that will restart your process if it quits (gets killed) and make your process restart that process if that quits (gets killed).

Posted 15-Apr-12 5:26am

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