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Skriven 2005-03-21 05:02:00 av "hc" <hboothe@gte.Net> (1:278/230)
Ärende: Re: Close GATOR.
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Why not install Spyware Blaster which I think will, when you "enable
all protection", prevent it from installing, or install Spybot Search &
Destroy which will remove it, or install Ad-Aware which will probably
uninstall it, too?  They're all free for home use and probably not
expensive for corporate use.

If you do work for a company then if you can get the users to use your
software you should be able to get them to run a scan every so often
using the aforementioned tools.  If the users are too daft, to stupid,
or too ill-behaved to do that then you have a problem.

So, if you're still gonna do it yourself, does Gator have a UI (a
window) with a constant title?  If so, you could use an API call to
locate a window (FindWindow, check the API viewer or
MSDN.microsoft.com) and check every few seconds for that window.  Not a
perfect solution 'cause God only knows what that malware crap has done
to your system in that couple of seconds.  Besides, that's gonna be a
system drain checking for that window, I bet.

If they don't have a UI, or if the title of the window changes from
time to time or instance to instance then you'll have to look for a
running process on the system and I don't know what API calls would be
involved in enumerating the currently running apps on a system, but if
it's NT, 2K, or XP you're gonna have to sweat permissions, I think,
before you can swat a running process, which means you'll either have
to have your users running under and admin account or you'll have to
try to run your app with a separate security account (rots o' ruck,
Scooby).

:-/  Dunno how much help any of that is, hope some is.

--HC



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