Re: Another thread about a non-killable process

[heba <mat.r.gl@gmail.com>]

2006/7/11, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>:
> OK, so I understand you can't kill a process in a 'D' state.  That makes
> sense.
>
> But, why can't you kill a process in state 'R'?
>
> This is what ps aux shows:
>
> ftp        899 64.9  0.2  4164 2216 ?        RNs  Jun12 27137:59 proftpd:
> (accepting connections)
>
> BTW, top shows that process taking 100% CPU.
>
> Hmm...proftpd, oddly enough (as was the subject of the other recent thread).
> Plain kill won't work.  Kill -9 will not kill it.  Right now, I have it set
> at the lowest possible priority, until I get a chance to reboot the machine,
> but is there anyway to kill an 'R' process when kill -9 won't work?
>
> j

seems a w32 or perhaps a backdoor seen the process run to ftp.

If you post us the process that top displaying you, please?

heba