Emanuele Aliberti wrote:
Alex Ionescu wrote:
I actually didn't understand if Russinovich was paid by MS to show that,
I feel a bit insulted. What does Russniovich have to do with anything? The screenshots above show a program which I alone have worked on, and that no other "NT hacker" has attempted in doing before.
Sorry, I took it for what Russinovich showed in his blog (killing the SM and LSA):
Sunday, July 24, 2005 Running Windows with No Services
Ah... nice blog article. Too bad he stole it from a post I made on the private Microsoft newsgroups about 2 years earlier (Yes,this is an assumption, but I had posted the exact same screenshot and explenation a full two years earlier on a newgroup I know he has access to!).
Actually, P. Dabak published the code of a native application that did keyboard I/O
Prasad Dabak 28 Feb 2000 10:00
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode From: Prasad Dabak prasadNOprS...@cybermedia.co.in.invalid Date: 2000/02/28 Subject: Re: Keyboard input in Windows NT native application
The code doesn't work on Win 2003 anymore, although it was a good read. The hard part is scancode->character conversion, as well as proper display output, including "backspace" (which requires buffering the line-data and using some simple algos to emulate backspace.
Best regards, Alex Ionescu