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Windows 98 ScreenSaver - Feedback So Fare


From: Ollie () DELPHISCONSULT CO UK (Ollie Whitehouse)
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 08:46:19 -0000


All,

This is some of the feedback I've got so fare on this, some people have seen
it some have not... AOL Instant messenger seems a good one for it also

[Success / Failures]
Blake Frantz [blake () mc net] - Could not replicate
James, Samuel P [JAMESSP () sce com] - Could not replicate
Jeremy McKane [jeremym () x2access net] - Could not replicate
p0rt23 () postoffice swbell net - Could replicate (AOL Instant Messenger)


[Interesting Idea]
Jacek Lipkowski [sq5bpf () acid ch pw edu pl]
i'm not a windows guru, but i recall, that under windows 95 you could
chande any interrupt vector by using standard dos calls (int 0x21 function
0x25/0x35 or something similar) - this is presumably for compablity with
dos applications. i don't know, what edit (or really qbasic.exe) was
compiled with, but i remember that some compilers produced
executables which caught the keyboard interrupt in order to service the
keyboard (and this of course bypasses all windows 'security' if there is
any).
this is also the reason, why many dos keylogging programs continue to work
under windows.
all that i can suggest is to switch to some os, that implements real
security, like unix for example (sorry, couldn't help myself not do do
some m$ bashing :)

Rgds

Ollie
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