Short Description

KaKeeware Application Monitor is a very small API monitor that allows the user to monitor the APIs called by the given application. KAM supports 5577 different APIs as for now.

Full Description

KAM works as an API spy that may help the developers and localization engineers to find the bugs in the release versions of the software. It can be also used by malware analysts to check which APIs are used by the sample they analyse.
The executable file is packed with Upack.
Since v1.04, KAM can rerieve object names (filenames, registry keys) and shows them on UI instead of handles, making the listing more readable. 1.10 shows more information about monitored APIs. 1.20 added groups to APIs window and added support for command line for monitored program. 1.21 hopefully fixes the problem with some XP versions. 1.30 introduces a lot of new APIs (now it's over 5000!). 1.31 finally conquers Vista. 1.32 adds some APIs (as per request :).

Please be aware that some AV programs may flag kam.exe as malicious. This is a problem known as FP (False Positive). kam.exe is not malicious and it doesn't contain any malicious code.

Requirements

Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Important for VISTA
You need to log in as Administrator to use this tool. In order to do so, you need to Enable the Administartor account on the login screen.
Follow these steps:

• Go to Start menu,
• Right-click on Computer,
• Choose Manage,
• Expand Local Users and Groups,
• Select the Users folder,
• Right-click on the Administrator account,
• Choose properties.
• Untick the Account is Disabled checkbox.
• Logo off, or press Windows-D key to switch to Login screen, or chosee it from Start menu,
• Log in as Administrator.
• If Kam doesn't work - reboot the computer and log in as Administrator again.

License

This program is FREEWARE only for non-commercial use.
Commercial users are kindly requested to contact us in order to discuss the details of the registration.

Donate

If you like this program and want to help the author and his wife to travel
around the world, feel warmly welcomed to donate. Thank you.

Download

kam.exe    [md5=4FAFBED39BCF3758105F356F0F27841B]

Remember to Read Important for VISTA text above if you want to use it on Vista!!!
If you see some APIs missing, let me know, I will include them in a next version.

History

2007-05-24 - v1.32
- - - new APIs added - now it's 5577 APIs
- - - - CheckRemoteDebuggerPresent API (on request, how come I missed this one? :)
- - - - Crypto APIs from advapi32.dll (on request :)
- - - added support for more API arguments
2007-05-19 - v1.31
- - - should work under Vista now
2007-04-22 - v1.30
- - - new APIs added - now it's 5404 APIs
- - - fixed bug with some constants' definitions (some args were not shown)
- - - fixed bug with COM calls (was causing random crashes)
- - - added support for more API arguments
- - - just to pretend sth is going on, version jumps to 1.30 :)
2006-08-07 - v1.21
- - - fixed (hopefully) problems with Windows XP
- - - fixed window positioning bug
2006-08-07 - v1.20
- - - added command line support; cmd line is preserved
- - - added DLL and Groups to APIs window (+windows splitter)
- - - APIs window position is now preserved
- - - added support for more API arguments
- - - same version story as for 1.10 :)
2006-07-17 - v1.10
- - - added a lot of new APIs - now it's 2378 APIs
- - - added support for more API arguments
- - - modified layout to make it more readable
- - - fixed bug in display routine
- - - due to number of changes, version jumped to 1.10 :)
2006-06-15 - v1.06
- - - fixed problems with Windows 2000 (now it should run there again!)
******** Thx to the guys from win32asm and woodmann boards who helped to discover and track down the bugs!
2006-06-12 - v1.05
- - - fixed retrieving names for regkeys
- - - fixed showing module names /was showing garbage/
- - - fixed HTML output /< and > were messing with output/
2006-03-08 - v1.04
- - - added retrieving names for objects (files, regkeys, etc.)
2005-06-06 - v1.01-v1.03
- - - load/save API list bug fixed
- - - captiondraw bug fixed
- - - few minor UI bugs fixed
2005-01-04 - v1.00
- - - new APIs added
- - - minor bugs fixed
2004-12-16 - v0.99 (first release)