RE: [Full-Disclosure] Looking for a tool

[Schmehl, Paul L]

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-----Original Message----- From: Nick Jacobsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:31 PM To: Schmehl, Paul L; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Looking for a tool Well, I usually use *sysinternals* Process Exporer, and have yet to see it fail to list a process...  how do you know the process exists, if you can't list it?   Real simple.  I have randomly named processes (like gk5odre.exe) popping up, and when I kill them, another one takes their place.  *Something* has to be the parent than controls this.  I can delete an entire registry key and watch it be recreated in less than a second.  I can delete a directory with three dlls in it and watch it be recreated right before my eyes.  I can kill the randomly named process and watch it reappear using the same name or a completely different name.  I can delete the executable after killing the process, and it will be recreated in no time.  So *something* has to be controlling it, yet when I look at the process tree, the randomly named process appears to be the parent. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/