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How To Kill Malware Tasks When You Can’t Access Task Manager

21
Dec 2011
21 Dec 2011

Have you ever tried cleaning off a malware program that locks you out of the task manager and the command prompt? You can’t use the task manager to kill the process and you can’t kill it thru the command prompt.

Luckily, you can kill it remotely!

TASKLIST.EXE and TASKKILL.EXE are two very powerful commands that come with Windows that can be used to kill tasks on other computers.

Below is an example of using these commands to stop a malware program from running on another computer.

After running the commands to kill the process, run the TAKSLIST.EXE command again and verify that the processes that were killed are gone.

Marc Reiter

Marc Reiter