Re: Simulate mouse movement?

From: Bonj (a_at_b.com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 00:37:59 -0000

I had that problem with Citrix at my old office for ages :-)
If yours is anything like Citrix's implementation of this security
functionality, then there's no way round it short of having an actual
physical robot to move the mouse around, because I think it acts on quite a
low level. We wanted to leave them on overnight logged into Citrix to run
programs, but there was no way we could. You may be able to get round it
with some complex C++ low level hardware hooks, but I'd say that was a very
rocky road unless you knew a method whereby it would succeed.
You could attach the base of an electric toothbrush to something steady and
attach the bristles to the top of the mouse. It'd clean it aswell - you'd
kill two birds with one stone. It sounds silly and you'd look a tit trying
it, but there's always the chance niggling away that it MIGHT work....

"Kevin" <kevinp@remove_cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
news:27uk30po6j54e1g8036b32bdtujde0r317@4ax.com...
> There's a computer in our office that's connected to a network other
> than our own. Within the past three weeks they've changed some
> security setting on their server that makes it so when no key is
> pressed or the mouse doesn't move for five minutes, a box comes up and
> locks us out of the computer until we enter the password again. As
> long as someone wiggles the mouse once in a while, it doesn't happen.
>
> The screensaver is disabled and I've set the screen to never go blank
> and I've made sure "Prompt for password when computer goes off
> standby" is unchecked (just in case).
>
> I created a small program in VB6 that disables the screensaver with an
> API call. That didn't work of course. Next I made the program move
> the mouse by API calls. That didn't work either. I'm not sure what
> else to try. Dealing with the IT people in charge of that domain is
> out of the question.

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