Meterpeter Crashes

[mmiller at hick.org (mmiller at hick.org)]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:15:46PM -0700, Stewart Fey wrote:
> I created a standalone executable exploit using meterpreter as the payload but is seems to crash and send an error 
> message to the victims computer.
> While testing it, the payload would work fine but when I exited my shell an error message pops up telling the victim 
> that somefile.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close...Do you want to send an error report to MS.? 
> Additionally, on another test computer the same error message pops up when then payload executes?but the handler 
> program is not on line.
> ?
> Does anyone have any suggestions for me?? Both test machines are XP.

Try setting EXITFUNC to thread or process and see if that helps.  By
default the payload will generate an exception when it is finished.