* Re: auto exec and hide
1997-04-10 0:00 auto exec and hide kurt
@ 1997-04-17 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
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From: Michael F Brenner @ 1997-04-17 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
I'd like to how how to make a program auto-exec when window boots and
how to hide it from the screen (no icons) and from the C dir.
Plus I'd like that program to sent(specifique info) by email (without
the user of that computer knowing it)to a specified email account.
(a) auto-exec. From windows you could either put it in autoexec,
config.sys, the boot sector, the startup directory, or use the startup
API.
(b) hide it. You could make the icon the same foreground and background color
as the screen background, you could use the game programmers interface to
search out the icon and erase it from the vga memory, you could never have
an icon for it to begin with, or you could use the api instead of the
startup directory. If starting from autoexec.bat or config.sys an icon
would NOT automatically be created for you anyway. If starting from the
boot sector you might get a menu instead of an icon, but that also
can be set to have the same foreground and background color. Using chron,
kron, at, batch, or other operating system features or apis to schedule
your job.
(c) send email. Use the Ada applet generator to call the email object,
use an Ada API to call email, use the Ada distributed appendix to
do an rpc to ask a CORBA server to send the email for you, write a
subroutine that implements a mime-compatible email protocol and tcp/ip
and send the email yourself, or spawn a mail command.
(d) without the user of that computer knowing it. There is no way to do this.
The user of the computer WILL feel the reflections of the messages you
send and know about them almost immediately. In some cases you could delay
them finding out for a very short time, using temporal sublimation or
metasthesis, but the Longer you delay them finding out, the Greater
the repercussions will be. Marketers, thieves, politicians, investigators,
blackmailers, spies, wives and husbands, warriors, beggars, assassins,
police states, and bigots have used intimidation techniques like this
to destroy those who disagree with them. However, it is the Essence of
Corruption to have secret criteria. And taking information without the
persons knowledge is the ultimate in having secret criteria. In the
United States, this is unconstitutional, except when done under orders
of a judge AFTER it has been shown that a crime is suspected. I recommend
three courses of action for you: (1) consider working peacefully to change
the laws of your city to forbid secret criteria, (2) consider looking up
the phrase Karmic Repercussions on the Net, and (3) consider studying
intolerance from the point of view of honesty by examining such things as
the possiblity of not hiding the messages or from the point of view of
the ancient gods and goddesses of Truth or from the point of view that
doing this will actually give power to those you do it to and they will
react strongly against it, eventually; of course, it is different
if it is done with their permission (in which case they know about it);
for example, we do this in the better configuration management
tools to check in and check out data whenever
you open or close a file in a text editor, to automatically comply
with configuration management conventions. We also do this in software
development environments to automatically run regression tests each
time a software module is changed; to do this just put the code
that calls the e-mail api as executable statements at the bottom
of the package body in the elaboration part, but watch out for elaboration
order dependencies if you do this.
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