How to hide an entry in a registry key

[Odie]

Until yesterday I did not even know that it was possible to hide entries in registry keys. Can anybody please tell me how this is achieved.

[Raymond]

It can be done via low level hooking. An example is a rootkit which the process is hidden and it is able to hide anything that it is coded to.

However coding a "stable" rootkit is not easy. Small bug can cause the system to crash or blue screen.

[Odie]

Thanks Ray. Yesterday when I read up about rootkits, I discovered they are able to write hidden values to the registry. As you know I have some interest in coding and although I have worked quite a bit with the registry I never came across a book which discuss this. Hence the question. I now know how to do this.

[tangomouse]

maybe this will help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...s-reghide-tool

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and this http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system...px?msg=2078988

[Raymond]

Interesting. Will try and see if it still works on Windows 7.

[Odie]

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system...px?msg=2078988

Thanks Tango, very helpful.

[Stranger]

useful link tango
thanks 4 share