AFAIK, PostThreadMessage only works on local machine. pskill will also ask for a password, Brett's code will bypass security checks (tested on my win2k sp4 systems). Correct me too if I'm wrong :-) Ciao --------------------------------------------------------------- Maxime Ducharme Administrateur reseau, Programmeur Pandore-Design [http://www.pandore-design.com] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thor Larholm" <thor@pivx.com> To: "Brett Moore" <brett.moore@security-assessment.com>; <bugtraq@securityfocus.com> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:38 PM 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> >