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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows |
| Date | 2011-09-01 22:19 -0700 |
| Organization | > Bestiaria Support Staff < |
| References | <6e602a19-8cca-4924-bd95-df08615662d2@c8g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <pan.2011.09.02.00.10.14.153000@nowhere.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.686.1314941112.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:10:14 +0100, Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:52:49 -0700, Den wrote:
>
> > Obviously, this is a windows-based question. I know that Ctrl-Alt-Del
> > is handled deep inside the OS, and I'm not trying to interrupt that.
> > But is there some way to detect that a C-A-D has been pressed?
>
> Not reliably. You might infer that Ctrl-Alt-Del has been used by the way
> that certain operations behave, but that's fairly error-prone.
>
No kidding... <ctrl-alt-del> is used to open the Login/password
screen in Windows specifically because it does not propagate to user
applications. Otherwise someone could write a trojan program that
emulated the login/password window and capture someone's
username/password.
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 08:52 -0700
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-02 01:10 +0100
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-09-01 22:19 -0700
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-09-02 18:19 +1200
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Stephen Hansen <me+list/python@ixokai.io> - 2011-09-02 00:06 -0700
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 17:55 +1000
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-09-03 12:51 +1200
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-09-03 08:49 +0100
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-09-02 12:01 +0200
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows sjm <sjmsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 05:27 -0700
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:19 -0700
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:20 -0700
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Web Dreamer <webdreamer@nospam.fr> - 2011-09-02 14:38 +0200
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Tim Golden <mail@timgolden.me.uk> - 2011-09-02 13:45 +0100
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Den <patentsvnc@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 09:26 -0700
Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-09-03 07:47 +1000
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