VB6 - prevent it from being closed

[Akroma]

I was requested to design an app which either cannot be closed by the task manager's 'end process', or does not appear in the task manager.
-althought i would like to use the kill command on it if needed.
anyone have any examples/hints on going about to do this?

thanks,

 

[strongm]

>does not appear in the task manager

You'll need to write rootkit ...

>cannot be closed by the task manager's 'end process'

Trickier in VB than you might think. You need to be able to intercept and cancel WM_QUIT messages (which don't go to a windows message queue, so you can't do this by subclassing the DefWindowsProc.

It might just be simpler to hide/rename taskmanger ...

 

[Akroma]

hmmm. i think i'll be going with the rootkit option. seems like the simpler method.
Thanks,