Showing posts with label netsh ETL tracing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label netsh ETL tracing. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Get-WinEvent, EventLogs, ETL, Providers on Win7 Part II


Working with Windows Tracing (ETL) logs
This is part of ongoing research project to understand how improved tracing providers in Windows 7 can help detect the presence of malware.  Microsoft has been improving event tracing for a number of years. The latest versions allows netsh to invoke multiple providers. After you have chosen your providers, you start the trace either by referencing the provider name or GUID. 'Netsh trace start' allows for keyword or capture filters, which can be useful if you know what specific events for which you need to trace. For this example, we will not create an NDIS capture ('capture=yes') nor will we select keywords or levels for the filters. After a few busy hours, this leads to quite a bit tracing.