Program Killer

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In Brief

Terminates unauthorized processes.

Vitals

Posted:	28 May 2002
File Size:	329KB
License:	GPL
Download:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/progkill
Publisher:	Joshua Kinard

Disclaimer

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Details

The Program Killer is a Delphi 6 program that monitors the Process List on Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT4/2000/XP for unauthorized EXE files (User Definable) and if found, those Processes are Terminated via the Windows API.

This is a completely new version rebuilt in Borland Delphi 6, with a host of new features, including Exporting a "Configuration File" from Program Killer, Disabling the Icon or the System Tray Menu, Windows NT4 Support (highly requested), MD5 Encrypted passwords, and several other additions.

Using Delphi 6, Program Killer should run better, and is more efficient at finding, and killing unwanted programs.

Installation of the Program Killer is performed via several built in Command Line options, and while these can be manipulated individually, a DOS Batch script has been included to help automate the calling and use of the command line options.

Before using the Batch scripts, please read the comments inside, as there are several system specific variables that may need to be set, depending on the system.

Program Killer is still released as Open Source under the GNU Public License.

See this article for additional information.

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Reader Comments

• Excellent application well carried out. It is obvious a large amount of thought has gone into this.
• Progkill is no longer under development. Know any replacements? I would still use Progkill, but it has a few bugs that need fixed and I don't have a Delphi compiler.
• brilliant
• This program rocks! I have found that if you place the progkill.exe on the network and then launch it with no parameters it will create all the files needed in tha same directory. Then all you do is run the program via a application object set at force run and it will run from the network fully functionally without having to install it on each machine.
• Excellent! This works great in our school environment. See here - http://kb.state.ar.us/sysadmin/kb/docs/1044054966:7900.html for a more complete list of programs. Please e-mail if someone has a longer list - nyle@myrealbox.com
• Nice Job - Well done and Delphi too! Love it. Thanks for posting the source also. We were able to add logging to identify the the PC's.