I've done a test with softice to check if the pskill of sysinternals sends any WM_QUIT to the process that you want to kill, the breakpoint didn't break so I guess these are two diferent things, with the same objective. -----Original Message----- From: Thor Larholm [mailto:thor@pivx.com] Sent: quinta-feira, 2 de Outubro de 2003 18:39 To: Brett Moore; bugtraq@securityfocus.com Subject: Re: Process Killing - Playing with PostThreadMessage Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this also how the PSKill application from SysInternals work? http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml Regards Thor Larholm PivX Solutions, LLC - Senior Security Researcher ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Moore" <brett.moore@security-assessment.com> To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:28 PM Subject: Process Killing - Playing with PostThreadMessage > ====================================================================== > === > = Process Killing - Playing with PostThreadMessage > = > = brett.moore@security-assessment.com > = http://www.security-assessment.com > = > = Originally posted: October 02, 2003 > ========================================================================= <snip http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/bugtraq0310/23.html>