How to disallow a windows service stop

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How to disallow a windows service stop

I have some security related service running on my machine (start type = automatic) In the service control manager, the stop/restart commands are grayed out.

I was wondering how can I develop such service for which the stop operation is disallowed.

Note that I am logged in as an administrator

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All you need is to disallow your service to recieve stop requests.

If you are writing service in C/C++ you should not specify SERVICE_ACCEPT_STOP flag when calling SetServiceStatus (see SERVICE_STATUS for details).
If your are using .NET, set ServiceBase.CanStop to false.

Denis Krjuchkov 2010-03-13 15:43:29

Still, given enough privileges an admin user could kill the process anyway.

Matteo Italia 2010-03-13 16:47:27

So the CanStop is not related to privileges at all. Is it possible to do that privilege based?

Saar 2010-03-15 13:54:31

Hi Jon.

Making the code changes outlined by Denis should improve the situation, but if your goal is to run your service 24/7 you may want to try Service Protector (http://www.coretechnologies.com/products/ServiceProtector/). It will automatically restart your service if it crashes, hangs or stops in any way, and send you email to let you know about it.

Good luck!

CoreTech 2010-07-21 08:20:57

And what would prevent Service Protector itself from being stopped? Also, do you handle process suspension (as opposite to stopping)?

Eugene Mayevski 'EldoS Corp 2010-07-21 08:52:55

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