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By Mary Landesman, About.com Guide to Antivirus Software since 2000

How to Kill Winlogon

Wednesday November 5, 2008
Malware often hooks into the Winlogon process, enabling the malware to load even in Safe Mode. Removing malware load points from Winlogon may require shutting down the Winlogon process. Here's how to kill Winlogon so you can remove the malware.
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November 14, 2008 at 4:18 am
(1) John Maley says:

Wonderful advice. Being able to kill winlogon solved my trojan problem. Thank you !!!

April 2, 2009 at 4:38 pm
(2) Alvert says:

After I run Process Explorer and kill the process smss.exe and winlogon.exe I am unable to restart my system. I am using Windows Xp.

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