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TazeTSchnitzel on Aug 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Coding Horror: I Was a Teenage Hacker

Exactly. Only the windows login process can hook into that keystroke.

eliasmacpherson on Aug 9, 2012 [–]

it might be my imagination, but i've heard of hacked winlogon.exe's, wikipedia says 'vundo'?

eropple on Aug 9, 2012 | [–]

That isn't hooking Ctrl-Alt-Del, though--it's replacing the winlogon desktop that Ctrl-Alt-Del is hardcoded to switch you to.

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