Re: FW: Keyboard Locking/Invisible Screensaver

From: Suresh Ponnusami (surya_at_nsecure.net)
Date: 07/10/03

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    To: "Sanjiv Menezes" <sanj@sliq.com>, "'Pogue'" <pogue@rokus.net>, <builder173@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:23:23 +0530

    Here is the easier way of doing the remapping. Just use the Remapkey.exe
    from Win2000 Resource Kit, Desktop Tools. You can remap the keys to some
    unknown sequences, for example ctrl - alt - del can be mapped to something
    like F5 F6 F6 ( for example !:) ) or to some other keys. You will find these
    options in a nice gui wrapper from Microsoft which is easy to use. No hidden
    registry editing or something that might cause some problems, if you miss
    one
    digit in the provided binay value or some typo error.
    P.Suresh
    Co-founder,
    Information Security Consultant,
    nSecure Software (P) Ltd.,
    Bangalore, KT,
    India - 560071
    http://www.nsecure.net/
    "Layered Defense"

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Sanjiv Menezes" <sanj@sliq.com>
    >
    > There is another way of doing this. This may be used on top of this screen
    > saver, in order to disable ctl-alt-del, alt-tab etc., usually you have to
    > rewrite gina.dll which is messy. There is a cool way of doing it by
    > remapping keys that I use on XP embedded set top boxes that is described
    in
    > this slightly broken article:
    >
    > http://www.northcode.com/resources/articles/01/kiosk.html
    >
    > You can set up one .reg file to disable system keys and another one to
    > re-enable them. Lots of applications for this cool little hack.
    >
    > Sanj

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