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Microsoft kill in Windows Netprobe Package

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• Wanted to know if Microsoft Kill is part of Netprobe package?
• What is the purpose of this?
• Is it safe to remove or delete this?

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• Yes, netprobe package has a “kill” on it. This kill and Windows kill is similar to each other.

• The kill.exe and other program in the netprobe is to provide clients with easy access to tools to handle various tasks (killing processes, updating registry values, etc.) that can be used by either the toolkit or to manage the netprobe.
• You can manually delete kill.exe from the directory if it is not used by your team.

Note: There is an existing unresolved JIRA about this. [COL-11743] Investigating kill.exe and these other binaries in windows netprobe