If you're trying to script a restart function for users, you'll unfortunately find that shutdown.exe does not work for non-Administrators, nor does psshutdown. Shutdown.exe requires privileges for the shutdown process and psshutdown.exe requires privileges to add and start services. One of many ways around this problem is to create a visual basic script. This also offers the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2008-12-04
Book Review: Rootkits – Subverting the Windows Kernel
Rootkits, authored by Greg Hoglund and James Butler, is a very technical reading for a very technical topic. Rootkits themselves (the technology) gained quite a bit of fame in 2005 when Sony was found to be embedding rootkit technology along with their CDs to prevent copying of music. This book goes well beyond the simple copyright protection and really delves into the … [Read more...]