[Guxi]

Kill Switch







Feature:
Allows you to Kill a process & network interface instantly by HotKey.
You can combine killing a process and network interface or just induvidual process or induvidual network interface.
It's also possible to Enable ( revive ) already disabled network interface (/adapter) by pressing the "Enable" button.

Requirements:
.Net Framework 4.0

Usage:

Adapter / network interface killing:
Select an adapter from apaters list and check the checkbox to allow killing via hotkeys.
Once you add / remove adapters from your machine, make sure you refresh the adapters list using the "refresh list" button.

Process killing:
Select an process you wish to kill by selecting a process from process listbox and check the checkbox to allow killing via hotkeys.
Once you start a new process or stop already started one, make sure you refresh your process list by clicking on "refresh list" button.

Hotkeys:
Modify your hotkeys by choosing following combinations : ( ctrl / alt / shift / winKey ) + F12
To enable killing over HotKeys, you have to check the checkbox "enable hotkeys".

Download:
KillSwitch.exe

Download source:
Form1.cs

thanks to:
I'd like to thank to MSDN community for helping me to resolve some errors in my code.
Also thanks to this guy: https://www.youtube.com/user/MikeAbyss?feature=watch who's tutorial helped me to add global hotkeys properly.

[Slarek]

This looks nice
Great job:Thumbs-Up:

[noize]

Some feedback:

1. why is a messagebox popping up when I switch hotkey preference? That's annoying.
2. you should run with admin privileges by default. NIC disabling will fail if you're not running under an administrator account. You will also fail killing processes that run with admin privileges.
3. why is F12 the only F-key allowed? I think that it would be much better if you allowed other F-keys as well, and maybe, a "none" in the leftmore option menu where you have "ctrl", "alt", "shift" and "windows" (the F-key alone will do the trick).

Well done for your entry in the HC dev team.

[Guxi]

Some feedback:

1. why is a messagebox popping up when I switch hotkey preference? That's annoying.
2. you should run with admin privileges by default. NIC disabling will fail if you're not running under an administrator account. You will also fail killing processes that run with admin privileges.
3. why is F12 the only F-key allowed? I think that it would be much better if you allowed other F-keys as well, and maybe, a "none" in the leftmore option menu where you have "ctrl", "alt", "shift" and "windows" (the F-key alone will do the trick).

Well done for your entry in the HC dev team.

Thanks for the feedback.
I'll answer your question. Msgbox wasn't supposed to popup because i forgot to remove it before i compiled it. 'Cause when i was debugging the app i used msgbox as an indicator that everything works well when you try to switch preferences. My bad.

:Thumbs-Up:

If i decide to release killswitch version 2 i'll consider what you've written in the feedback.

[Coder-san]

The tool is good I guess, but the GUI looks very amateur. If you're going to try for HC Official then better work on the GUI too.
There are lots of empty spaces in the GUI.
None of the controls inside the groupboxes are disabled even when no checkbox is enabled.
Why is Hotkeys combobox (I assume it's a combo) allowing user inputs? It should be a fixed dropdown combo.
What if there are multiple instances of the processes? Like a persistent malware? Even your hotkeys won't work that fast.
The enable disable buttons are both enabled? Leaving the user clueless if he already has disabled an adapter or not.

P.S. You would see more comments in this thread if your source were in the opening post readily available in codeblock.

[Guxi]

The tool is good I guess, but the GUI looks very amateur. If you're going to try for HC Official then better work on the GUI too.
There are lots of empty spaces in the GUI.
None of the controls inside the groupboxes are disabled even when no checkbox is enabled.
Why is Hotkeys combobox (I assume it's a combo) allowing user inputs? It should be a fixed dropdown combo.
What if there are multiple instances of the processes? Like a persistent malware? Even your hotkeys won't work that fast.
The enable disable buttons are both enabled? Leaving the user clueless if he already has disabled an adapter or not.

P.S. You would see more comments in this thread if your source were in the opening post readily available in codeblock.

Thanks for the feedback, it helps a lot for the future projects.

[Arch3r]

I haven't tried your program just yet but I really like this idea!
Don't let the good criticism discourage you ^^

[noize]

I'll answer your question. Msgbox wasn't supposed to popup because i forgot to remove it before i compiled it. 'Cause when i was debugging the app i used msgbox as an indicator that everything works well when you try to switch preferences. My bad.

I actually thought so.

One more thing, I forgot to write it in my post: why allowing hotkeys to kill only processes that are already running? You might make CTRL + F12 kill task.exe, even if it's not running at the moment, for later use.

And, maybe, allow the program to run in background, so you can just forget about it but still use the hotkeys when needed.

You could also make it possible to run files, with hotkeys. Say CTRL + F3 kills firefox.exe, or else, if it's not running, runs %programfiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe (the path is entered by the user, of course).

The tool is good I guess, but the GUI looks very amateur. If you're going to try for HC Official then better work on the GUI too.
There are lots of empty spaces in the GUI.
None of the controls inside the groupboxes are disabled even when no checkbox is enabled.
Why is Hotkeys combobox (I assume it's a combo) allowing user inputs? It should be a fixed dropdown combo.
What if there are multiple instances of the processes? Like a persistent malware? Even your hotkeys won't work that fast.
The enable disable buttons are both enabled? Leaving the user clueless if he already has disabled an adapter or not.

Indeed, it's always better to make your programs foolproof.

P.S. You would see more comments in this thread if your source were in the opening post readily available in codeblock.

Now I think the char limits are tighter, so, when my code doesn't fit, I just use http://hastebin.com/ , but Coder-San is absolutely right here.

[AnonyomosGuy]

Thanks for app

[chmod]

Great work OP. I love it.

Don't gravedig, especially just to thank someone, we have a "thank button" that achieves the same thing. Advertising competing forums is also against the rules and I have no idea what you thought you could achieve by making the link text the same colour as the background.