Re: Hiding scheduled tasks in 2K/XP

From: H Carvey <keydet89(at)yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 15:15:05 EDT

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Winter,

I've verified this on Win2K SP2. Interesting.

I use Perl for system programming on Windows platforms, particularly for IR and forensics. The
Win32::TaskScheduler module will completely enumerate even the hidden (attrib +h) tasks...

I mention this, as I'm putting together a full-blown IR application that is made up of my scripts, and can be run from a CD. This will be included in my upcoming book.

Harlan

>Ive found that you can use attrib.exe on files in
%windir%\tasks,
>particularly with the +h attribute. "Attrib.exe +h *"
will hide all
>scheduled tasks from AT, Scheduled Tasks (both Control
Panel + explorer) =
>and
>"dir %windir%\tasks" (unless you use dir /a or have it
set as such in
>%dircmd%). Browsing %windir%\tasks on the cmd line
with "dir /a" is the
>only way ive been able to detect jobs that have been
hidden this way. =
>They
>run as scheduled. Tested on 2000 SP3 & XP SP1.

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Received on Tue Jun 3 16:29:18 2003