Subj : Re: killing processes in win2k
To   : Rich
From : tom
Date : Thu Mar 29 2001 04:12 pm

From: tom <no-spam@tcgweb.com>

Too much work.

But that could be a better way, depending on your point of view.

Rich wrote:
>
>    This is silly.  If a trojan wants to make it appear that AV
> software that was killed is still running it could add an identical
> icon to the notification area that didn't disappear when moused over.
>
> Rich
>
>
>      "tom" <no-spam@tcgweb.com> wrote in message
>      news:3AC2513D.574E@tcgweb.com...
>      They are there until you mouse_over.
>      How often do you mouse_over them?
>      It only takes seconds, or minutes at the most, for very bad
>      things to
>      happen. Do you want to spend your day mousing over icons?
>
>      The point is the processes they represent appear to be
>      active even
>      though they are not.
>      A dangerous thing when dealing with security software.
>
>      I wonder how much cpu time could be set aside to give the
>      app a chance
>      to pop a warning or something before the kernel whacks it?
>

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