Task Explorer - An Advanced Task Manager for hackers

[bolo2002]

Originally Posted by DavidXanatos

New Release: https://github.com/DavidXanatos/TaskExplorer/releases/tag/v1.0

Finally we arrived at the build v1.0, this build features a extended xprocesshacker.sys that can unprotect (PPL) protected processes.
An other great new feature is a much better remote host name resolution for sockets, instead of just relying on reverse dns (which in the age of CDN's is not very reliable), we monitor ETW events emitted when a process issues a dns query. This way we know what domains every process requested and what IP's it got as answer, hence when observing a new socket we first check in this list for matching entries, when found it is almost certain the socket was opened with the intention to reach the captured domain.

Added

xprocesshacker.sys can now unprotect and re protect protected processes (light)
using ETW Events to monitor what domains individual processes querry
-- enabled more accurate remote hostname column display

Changed

cleaned up PH directory
improved process display for the case when multiple processes are sellected
now using https://github.com/microsoft/krabsetw to monitor ETW events
reworked socket process association
when opening finder the search term ist selected such it can be replaced quickly

Fixed

no longer trying to do reverse dns on adresses that returned no results

Like said Fyyre on (https://forum.exetools.com/showthread.php?t=19038)

excellent work!
your task explorer could even be source closed,i hope your work will not be stolen,it's more than a simple github project.

[DavidXanatos]

Originally Posted by bolo2002

your task explorer could even be source closed,i hope your work will not be stolen,it's more than a simple github project.

Making a closed source task explorer would be quite paradoxic as the reason I had to code it in the first place was that the Task Manager I was using since almost two decades was itself closed source and stopped being maintained 7 years ago...
So I really wouldn't want to risk putting others in the same kind of pickle I found my self in.

[bolo2002]

Originally Posted by DavidXanatos

Making a closed source task explorer would be quite paradoxic as the reason I had to code it in the first place was that the Task Manager I was using since almost two decades was itself closed source and stopped being maintained 7 years ago...
So I really wouldn't want to risk putting others in the same kind of pickle I found my self in.

I understand,it were just to say it,frankly for an open source it's a very well done work.