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[haz]

Hi everyone.

On a computer I am using there is a little program running called secmon.exe
It is completely hidden except for on the ctrl+alt+del menu.
When I open a program, such as MSN messenger, or any VB app I have made, secmon sends a little message to windows which closes the program and gives a message "your program has been closed down".
I find this very annoying as I can't use many applications I want.
My question is simply:
1. Is there any way to isolate this program so that it doesn't know I have opened another app in the first place.
2. Is there any way to intecept ANY messages it sends to windows to prevent it from shutting things down
3. Is thare anything anyone can think of?

p.s. there is a catch, secmon.exe cannot be shut down or a message is sent to the administrator.

Thank you in advance for ANY help anyone can offer me.

[parksie]

Try renaming the .exe file of the program you want to run to something like winword.exe (to try and fool it).

[Electroman]

Try to work out how this message to the admin is sent and ...

If it is sent when the program is closed it is simple, Don't start the program i.e. Use the registry to delete the startup command in ____________/Software/Microsoft/Windows/current Version/

Either Run
or RunServices

Try the others that begin with Run

[Yonatan]

Maybe you can try killing secmon.exe with Process Viewer (comes with VC++).
It shouldn't be able to send any message to any administrator if you do it.
Unless it is multithreaded, or uses other clever (not) tricks. So try the other solutions first!