Terminating Processes without local Admin

[Slick]

I am at school in our closed CCNA / A+ lab. Anyway we have some stupid virus scanner on the system which runs in the background and cannot be removed. The process can be terminated, however, I do not have proper permissions. The process is Rvtscan.exe. I can access the task manager and try to close it but when I do I get a "Access Denied" Message. Any ideas on how to kill it without local admin.

P.S. The process uses up 70% of the cpu usage and makes it very hard to get things done with such old machines. Our instructor seems to think its important.

[primesuspect]

That's rtvscan, it's Norton Antivirus Corporate edition.

You can't terminate the process even with admin rights - you need to stop the service first. I doubt you'll be able to do that.

AntiVirus IS important, your prof is right :(

[Slick]

Yea but he decided he didnt want it anymore. For anyone who has used the corprate edition knows it is practically impossible to remove. He tried to get rid of it, couldn't, so it just dropped to the bottom of his priority list and now its giving us all crappy performance.

[primesuspect]

:-/ ... we use it at our office, and for a majority of our clients, and it works great. Uninstalling it is as easy as add/remove programs.... :confused:

[EMT]

This program has *sometimes* worked when Task Manager hasn't (actually I think it's pretty rare and the purpose is more to put the function on the command line, but you might want to try it anyway). It's called pskill.exe.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pskill.shtml