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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Detecting Ctrl-Alt-Del in Windows
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:19:20 -0700
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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.
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