>> If he were to give this knowledge to just
>> anyone who asked, most would consider such
>> actions completely irresponsible.

If he want's to create a virus which hides itself from the task manager than this isn't a very good way to go about it. I rather suspect that our boy is trying to write a program which isn't supposed to be disabled by users which is what a system programmer is supposed to do and the reason Microsoft put the services functionality in NT in the first place. The information which I gave out is a solution to a clasic problem which I've encountered often in writing code for large material handleing facilities populated by drones who's fingers are larger than any individual key.

>> Maybe you view this attitude as "uncool", but
>> I hope you can also respect people with these
>> attiudes, just as yours also deserves respect.

I don't respect people who hoard their knowledge and play god with it. Rather I respect people who are willing to throw someone a life line when they ask for it. People who share what the know and recipricate are ultimately the people who grow and learn, demi-gods and false prophets, who needs them.