I have antivirus service (Kaspersky) that occasionally becomes unresponsive to the normal stop/stop gui interface provided by said vendor. I would like to find a way to kill the service for a restart without rebooting, however all attempts I have tried result in failure with an 'Access is Denied' error. These include:
- Services Control Panel (grayed out stop button)
- Task Manager
- Killing Process Explorer Killing
- command line net and sc stopping
- runas with domain admin using net stop
Some details include:
- Machine: Windows Vista
- Service Type:
10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
- Service State:
4 Running (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)
Best Answer
@richard states:
Not correct, there are certain processes I couldn't kill with Process Explorer but with other tools like rootkitunhooker.exe.
Also Process Explorer does not show RootKit processes, so it also can not kill them.
I usually use the "psexec -s" approach.
pskill.exe may not work within psexec -s, but I have described a workaround for that.