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

[Yaniv Kaul]

On 08/15/2012 01:05 PM, Arnon Gilboa wrote:
> 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?

If you can do it automatically, I guess so.
Y.

>>> 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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