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Assassinate in-use programs with Killbox

by Ryan Carter on September 6, 2006 at 08:05 PM

Ever have a virus or other program that you can't get rid of because it won't die long enough for you to delete it? When Spybot, Ad-Aware, and others fail, turn to Killbox. This handy-dandy download will kill anything currently running on your PC, so you can remove it. Simply enter the path of the offending guest, and Killbox will go to town on it. Think of it like the in-memory mafia. Killbox doesn't care, it will take out pretty much anything. From time to time those of us less technologically savvy (relatives, family, friends) need help with renegade programs too, so if they ever have this problem, at least now you know a guy. Sort of. No problem, he take care of it. Don't worry about it.

Tags: Ad-Aware, adware, killbox, memory, process, SpyBot, spyware, virus

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DebbieSep 7th 2006 9:11PM

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Wow... cool features. Does it work better than Norton?

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KeithSep 7th 2006 3:18AM

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http://www.diamondcs.com.au/index.php?page=apt

I use a program called Advanced Process Termination.

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johnnyg0Sep 7th 2006 8:58AM

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I have yet to try this one, but I currently use Unlocker (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/) which have a nice explorer shell extension so you can do it just by right clicking the file you want to kill.

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Claus ValcaSep 7th 2006 3:35PM

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I use and love the Locked File Wizard

http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=misc

TinyApps.org has posted a list of "Delete in-use files" applications as well.

http://tinyapps.org/weblog/windows/200609060700_delete_in_use_files.html

I have used many of these in battling malware from a machine, in combo with Process Explorer.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html

(as previously posted on Download Squad)

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