>>Another would be Hal staying in the system tray.
Then it would not be listed in the task manager, even when it is on the screen.<<
Gary,
Microsoft Acedemic course 70-270 Glossary,,
Bot; On the internet, a program that preforms a repetitive or time-consuming task, such as searching Web sites or newsgroups or indexing them in a database or other recordkeeping system. This term is also increasingly used to describe a malicious program that scans the internet adress space looking for systems with a paticular vulnerability. This kind of Bot, also known as a ZOMBIE, infects the host to control it remotely, using it to launch attacks on other systems or spew uncolicited e-mail messages across the internet.
With this in mind just exactly what are you desiring to have/create?
Would you want to know if something like MOM.EXE is running on your system??
I think this is something for all partys to consider.[8]