On: Proton.B: What this Mac malware does

[marak830]

One software I was/am still working on has an onscreen display(clear always top window ) so I can draw icons and text over a game, it's a pain to alt-tab out of(due to me setting it to constantly check to see if it's ontop, and if not, to set it).

So I would say that it's certainly possible, although I haven't tried specifically to do that to emulate UAC.

Edit: Infact I had a bug at one stage where if I closed the main window, the invisible window would remain running, with no entry in the start bar.

Now I'm becoming a little more concerned, as I could also listen for hotkeys, (such as Ctrl alt delete) and display my own 'secure login' page. Shit

[MohammadLee → marak830]

Listening for these hotkeys is kind of pointless. The whole idea of pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del is that, while you can detect the keys being pressed, you cannot prevent Windows to display its interface on top of yours. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key That's actually a good mechanism that should be brought back to all modern OS. I wish Android had something similar (well, available physical input keys are limited, but you get the idea)

[marak830 → MohammadLee]

I would like to hope so, I haven't tried intercepting something like that(I just listen for certain keys), I do wonder if someone more experienced than me could listen for Ctrl and alt, then intercept the delivery, and display their own. (I would 'assume' the system gets first dibs on any keypress, but what if you listened for Ctrl and alt then used a sendkey to upkey the Ctrl and alt, and detect a del key press and then display a fake).