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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Screensaver login security?
From:       Mark Hillary <mark () no33 ! co ! uk>
Date:       2003-10-08 13:34:47
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It actually that this key combiation causes the windows kernel to
disable all user space programs, thereby stopping a key logger, started
by the user, from working.

Philip Hofstetter wrote:
| The problem is that someone could run a modified version of the
| screensaver instead of the real one to trick the administrator into
| revealing the root password.
|
| NT forces the User to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete before allowing to enter the
| password, thus revealing a trojan screensaver-lookalike immediatly.
|
| Philip

Mark

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