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- From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: HELP! Stopping KeyCopy
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 18:57:17 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- Message-ID: <4g3g6dINNovb@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
- References: <4g2js8$dbo@white.lambton.on.ca>
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- In article <4g2js8$dbo@white.lambton.on.ca>,
- C Lambert <93004794@white.lambton.on.ca> wrote:
- >Hi All,
- >
- > At our college we have encountered a program called KEYCOPY. This
- >program appears to be hooking into the keyboard interrupt and dumping
- >login information to a text file at login time. We are using Novell 4.x
- >and they must physically create a directory (KEY2) and then edit the
- >autoexec.bat file to load this program into memory. This is done on a
- >local system (terminal).
-
- Sounds like incompetent administration. Why allow people to do anything before
- they log in?
-
- How about removing the floppy drives from the system? That way there is no
- directory for anyone to place and execute a keyboard-trapping program. You
- should look into network boot roms.
-
- If that is not an option, has it occured to you that you can make a floppy boot
- drive physically inaccessible by embedding it into the case of the computer so
- that anyone who wants to insert a write-enabled floppy must first unbolt the
- computer from the desk, and open the case?
-
- Sounds like I could be running your network---better not any of the replies to
- your boss.
-
- This doesn't have the faintest thing to do with comp.lang.c.
- Even if you follow through with your silly (though heroic :) method of
- combatting the problem (obfuscated low-level programming rather than sound
- administration), and become, in the eyes of the users, the cowboy guru who
- saved the town, the standard C language has no methods to do what you are
- asking.
-
- Try some DOS programming newsgroup, as well as some Novell related newsgroups.
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