i m developing a application for administrative purpose, it's developed completly but now i m stuck with hiding process from taskmanager, because my application monitor the users activity and send reports to admin, i have hide the application but i m not able to hide the process from task manager.
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You can not do that. You can rename the EXE file so that no one can know what the process is.
RaviG
2010-05-19 11:31:34
right click on application in task manager -> go to process
jk
2010-05-19 11:34:30
there should be some way, like kernel , but i don't know much about it...
girish
2010-05-19 11:38:31
+1
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you probably want it to run as a windows service that way it shouldn't appear as an application in task manager and in the processes it will just be one of many svchost.exe processes.
jk
2010-05-19 11:38:38
+3
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You can't reliably do this. You could use a virus-like technique to hook into the Windows kernel, but your application is liable to be blocked by a virus scanner.
If you're unhappy with users closing your application, why not remove local admin rights from your users and run your app as a Windows service? Windows will then stop them from closing your app.
Tim Robinson
2010-05-19 12:21:26
already this software implemented task manager hide functionality http://www.refog.com/employee-monitoring.html
JKS
2010-05-19 13:10:02
Yes, and this is usual practice for viruses too. I'd recommend not doing this, and using Windows permissions instead.
Tim Robinson
2010-05-19 13:52:40
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Create a service / run the application under another user. A non-administrator can not see processes belonging to other users, thus not your app.
Sid
2010-05-19 12:42:42
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Read up on rootkits and techniques used to hide windows processes. http://www.amazon.com/Rootkits-Subverting-Windows-Greg-Hoglund/dp/0321294319
Also a good read from Mark Russinovich http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897445.aspx
Sijin
2010-05-19 13:45:13