RE: Listing processes and killing processes through command line in Windows

From: Anthony, Shayla (shayla@exchange.cis.pitt.edu)
Date: 01/29/03

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From: "Anthony, Shayla" <shayla@exchange.cis.pitt.edu>
To: <security-basics@securityfocus.com>

    The Windows NT Resource Kits, both NT4 and Windows 2000 Professional, include a remote kill process commandline utility rkill.exe . To be able to kill a process or processes running on a remote server, you must have admin privileges and the rkillsrv.exe service must be installed and running. There is also a gui version of the client tool, wrkill.
    Examples of commandline syntax :

    rkill view \\servername
    to get the process list on servername

    kill \\servername pid
    to kill process pid on servername

    rkill \\servername process.exe
    to kill a process by name on servername

    Shayla