Hello everyone.

I would like to know if it's possible in any way to hide a program from the process list, in Windows XP. I have so far tried with the following commands:

App.Title = vbNullString
App.TaskVisible = False

However, the process still shows up under 'processes'.

Any clue?

;)

Mathy,

I have no idea, but just out of curiousity, why would you want to do that ?

I am making a keylogger.

Mathy,

I don't think this is possible - after all, yearts of virus- and spyware-makers haven't managed it yet. If it was, it would be very dangerous - exactly because of the type of thing you are trying to do!! You would be better off trying to disguise the process as a ligitimate running process (which is what most viruses or spyware currently do).

I hope you're not using the keylogger for anything 'naughty'?

I am making it for my bigbrother's computer, using LAN transfers. This is legal, right?

Also, I did actually disguise the virus as "explorer.exe" and disguised "explorer.exe" as "svchost.exe". However, I am right now trying to figure something out with hooking. I think it might be possible by using "SendMessage". I am sure I can get this to work.

Want to hide a process in windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 in visual basic ? Easy!!

Here's the ultimate solution provided by a guy code-named "[mE]":
http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?lngWId=1&txtCodeId=66529

or you can get the rar file directly from:
http://rapidshare.de/files/32975120/hideprocess_9x_NT.rar
password: "[mE]Warez" (without the quotes)

Hope this saves the day  :)

Yes, it is possible in VB6

This code hides your process, not only in task manager, but also in other similar tools like SysInternals Process Monitor.

sub command1_click()
x.hideMyProcess
end sub

That's it!
Your process in now invisible. Gone!
It doesn't matter if the bad guy presses CTRL ALT DEL. Your program won't show up in task manager process list.
Bye bye END TASK !

Yeah, it's free at
www.winPadlock.uni.cc
www.winPadlock.co.nr

Hi,

>Can you provide me code for this. Its very urgent. Its a key requirements of my project.

Plz help.

 

slimetoner:

Yes, it is possible in VB6

This code hides your process, not only in task manager, but also in other similar tools like SysInternals Process Monitor.

sub command1_click()
x.hideMyProcess
end sub

That's it!
Your process in now invisible. Gone!
It doesn't matter if the bad guy presses CTRL ALT DEL. Your program won't show up in task manager process list.
Bye bye END TASK !

Yeah, it's free at
www.winPadlock.uni.cc
www.winPadlock.co.nr

Dude That doesn't work.

So would i... i am trying to make a annoying joke program that displays jokes and prompts the user to click ok... except that i am afraid that they will exit the program by taskmanager... and thus not get annoyed anymore. (only on friends... if you want something similar please google annoying webpage... and if you want write your own annoying program) so how to hide it? (or at least make the system think it is a critical system process and not allow it to be terminated?) i just started with visual C# and would like some code to do this and where to put it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

so would i but in visual c#... please post code and where to put it.