Stopping an unstoppable service
- by Nicholas
I have antivirus service (Kaspersky) that occasionally becomes unresponsive to the normal stop/stop gui interface provided by said vendor. I would like to find a way to kill the service for a restart without rebooting, however all attempts I have tried result in failure with an 'Access is Denied' error. These include:
Services Control Panel (grayed out stop button)
Task Manager
Killing Process Explorer Killing
command line net and sc stopping
runas with domain admin using net stop
Some details include:
Machine: Windows Vista
Service Type: 10 WIN32_OWN_PROCESS
Service State: 4 Running (NOT_STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, ACCEPTS_SHUTDOWN)