[Alt]+[Tab] breaks password protection

keke · 10-28-2003, 11:14 AM

I've dowloaded the demo version of Marine Aquarium v2. Fantastic!!! But...
The Marine Aquarium screensaver, like others, it have the password-protection feature, but it is easily "crackeable": just pressing "Alt+Tab" when I was absent, someone can pass the protection and access to privileged info on my PC.
I would to know, before I spend my money, if in the registered version this is corrected.
This occurs in my laptop DELL Latitude CPx with Directx9.0b with Win98 and in other IBM laptop with Win2000 Professional, too.

feldon34 · 10-28-2003, 11:35 AM

If you double-click on the Aquarium, then it is not running as a screen saver.

Install the Aquarium demo and set it to run as a screen saver. Then when it comes up as a screen saver, Alt-Tab should be impossible, especially under Windows 2000.

Edgar · 10-29-2003, 12:36 AM

Make sure you have "Exit on MouseMove" checked.

10-28-2003, 11:14 AM	#1
keke Registered Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 1	[Alt]+[Tab] breaks password protection I've dowloaded the demo version of Marine Aquarium v2. Fantastic!!! But... The Marine Aquarium screensaver, like others, it have the password-protection feature, but it is easily "crackeable": just pressing "Alt+Tab" when I was absent, someone can pass the protection and access to privileged info on my PC. I would to know, before I spend my money, if in the registered version this is corrected. This occurs in my laptop DELL Latitude CPx with Directx9.0b with Win98 and in other IBM laptop with Win2000 Professional, too.

10-28-2003, 11:35 AM	#2
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,939	If you double-click on the Aquarium, then it is not running as a screen saver. Install the Aquarium demo and set it to run as a screen saver. Then when it comes up as a screen saver, Alt-Tab should be impossible, especially under Windows 2000. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

10-29-2003, 12:36 AM	#3
Edgar Prolific/SereneScreen Developer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Norwalk, CA Posts: 513	Make sure you have "Exit on MouseMove" checked. *Edgar Tolentino* Prolific Developer www.prolific.com www.LifeGlobe.com