[Spice-devel] Mouse failure happens when mouse hovers on some Apps like Kaspersky Anti-virus tool.

[Arnon Gilboa]

Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>   
>> Hi Naga,
>>
>> Tested and reproduced it on Win7.
>>     
>
> I bet you'd see this in any many personal FW / Antivirus, to prevent a malicious software from manipulating it via the mouse (and disable it, for example).
>
> I'd try with ZoneAlarm (http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-pc-security-free-firewall.htm#) for example, which I know has such protection.
> Y.
>   
Seems you are right. So the only option we have is (auto)fallback to 
server mode / usbtablet for such apps?
>   
>> I don't have a patch yet for solving it, but you comment out the
>> line:
>> //ret = _running = false;
>> so vdagent won't exit, although mouse will not be effective on such
>> apps.
>> If it's a must, meanwhile you can always switch back to server mouse
>> mode by stopping vdservice.
>> You can also use usbtablet in case you don't need vdagent
>> functionality
>> (multi mon, c&p etc.)
>> I'll update you when I have a patch ready (currently not top
>> priority).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arnon
>>
>>
>>
>> Naga Mohan Pothula wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Arnon,
>>>  
>>> Have you checked installing kaspersky trail version? Here is the
>>> eror that causes vdagent.exe to be terminated abruptly.
>>> VDAgent::send_input::SendInput failed: 0
>>> VDAgent::run::Agent stopped
>>>  
>>> I've checked integrity level of Kaspersky UI process and it is
>>> lesser than VDAgent.exe
>>>  
>>>  
>>> Thanks/Naga.
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Arnon Gilboa <agilboa at redhat.com>fail due to UIPI blocking
>>> To: Naga Mohan Pothula <nagamohan.pothula at yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: "spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org"
>>> <spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2012 9:54 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] Mouse failure happens when mouse hovers
>>> on some Apps like Kaspersky Anti-virus tool.
>>>
>>> Naga Mohan Pothula wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> VDAgent in Windows 7 guest gets terminated when mouse hovers on
>>>> some applications like Kaspersky Anti-virus tool. Noticed
>>>> SendInput Windows API fails whenever any mouse operation performs
>>>> on this tool. "handle_mouse_event" method returns with failure
>>>> due to this and causes VDAgent to terminate.
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> what's the error logged in %windir%\temp\vdagent.log? look for
>>> "SendInput failed: ...")
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Initially, I thought it is UIPI ie., Process Integrity Level issue
>>>> and observed as follows:
>>>> VDService with SYSTEM a/c creates VDAgent with SYTEM a/c
>>>> Kaspersky tool is service-based app with SYSTEM a/c creates
>>>> process to handle UI with logged-on user and with 'Medium'
>>>> Integrity level.
>>>>
>>>> Don't understand why SendInput API fails even VDAgent with higher
>>>> integrity level than Kaspersky tool?
>>>> Is there any other way to make VDAgent works for all applications
>>>> installed in windows guest?
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> will give it a look and update you accordingly.
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Thanks\Naga.
>>>>
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