[ThoughT]

Hello, I've been programming in several languages for several years but havn't really played with VB much but I'd like to make this program with VB, I have version 6

anyways I am developing this program that keeps tabs on all the running processes and makes sure they're all good, (have a allow and kill list, and if the process is on the kill list it gets killed.. ..good for stoping spyware and perhaps virai)

for the program to be efficient I think I need to use some form of hook that gets called each time a new process is created, instead of having my program refresh the process list frequently to check for new processes and have to compare each individual process to the lists to check to see if it should die.

does anyone know of a hook or something in which I can use to do this?

thank you very much in advance for any form of help.

ThoughT

[aewarnick]

Why do you want to use VB? .net languages are the future of managed languages. Personally I'll stick with C++ and I'll never touch a VB or a VB look-alike such as VB.net.

I made a program in C# .net that does EXACLY what you described. But that was C# .net not VB.

[ThoughT]

well I kinda dont have C anything I would like to learn though.. maybe I'll have to aquire this programming environment somewhere..

would you show me or let me have your program? ;-)

[aewarnick]

The source has a whole bunch of extra stuff in it I don't want to give out. Here is a snippet from my code:

PHP Code:

public void FillRunProc()
        {
            Process[]P= Process.GetProcesses();
            bool there=false;

            foreach(Process p in P)
            {
                foreach (string x in this.runProcLB.Items)
                {
                    if(p.ProcessName==x)
                    {
                        there=true;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                if(!there)
                    this.runProcLB.Items.Add(p.ProcessName);
                there=false;
            }

            there=false;
            string[]listProc=new string[this.runProcLB.Items.Count];
            this.runProcLB.Items.CopyTo(listProc, 0);

            foreach (string x in listProc)
            {
                foreach(Process p in P)
                {
                    if(p.ProcessName==x)
                    {
                        there=true;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                if(!there)
                    this.runProcLB.Items.Remove(x);
                there=false;
            }
        }
//-----------------------
        public void FillMarkedProc()
        {
            this.markedProcLB.Items.Clear();
            string[]mItems= this.markedKey.GetValueNames();
            this.markedProcLB.Items.AddRange(mItems);
        }
//-----------------------
        public void KillProc()
        {
            string[]mItems= this.markedKey.GetValueNames();
            Process[]P= Process.GetProcesses();

            foreach(string x in mItems)
            {
                foreach(Process p in P)
                {
                    if(x.ToLower() == p.ProcessName.ToLower()) p.Kill();
                }
            }

            UpdateForm();
        } 


[ThoughT]

thank you aewarnick, I'll see what I can do with this code :-D