Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Mike Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen programs that can monitor your keystrokes and mouse clicks, etc, in order to replay them against the operating system. Does perl have the ability to do something like that? The purpose of my search is that I want to automate certain responsibilities which

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Ben Tilly
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:04:31 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen programs that can monitor your keystrokes and mouse clicks, etc, in order to replay them against the operating system. Does perl have the ability to do something like that? Yes. The purpose of my

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The purpose of my search is that I want to automate certain responsibilities which necessitate using windows based programs, but not being a Windows programmer, I have no clue on how to do this. I don't know if it's possible, or if perl can do

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Ranga Nathan
You would use Windows Scripting tool for that. Check-out WSH (Windows Scripting Host). There are many macros that do just that and as it was pointed out, this has caused many security exploitations in windows. There is software like Win Runner (Mercury tools I think) and Load Runner that do

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Ben Tilly
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:49:45 -0800, Ranga Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would use Windows Scripting tool for that. Check-out WSH (Windows Scripting Host). There are many macros that do just that and as it was pointed out, this has caused many security exploitations in windows. And now

Re: [Boston.pm] [getting OT] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Ben Tilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:21:38 -0800 And now that there is serious venture capital behind adware, some of the more difficult security exploits are getting hit hard. For instance I've heard that that internal Windows messages have *no* security

Re: [Boston.pm] [getting OT] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Ranga Nathan
Accessing inernet when you are logged on as administrator is like inviting AIDS (sorry, this sounds drastic but it is :) ). At home where I dont have too much security, I always log on as a common low-privilege user. while on internet. Using Mozilla is always wise. I can not believe that there

Re: [Boston.pm] [getting OT] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
Windows cannot really live without IE, too many things embed it. I have just been playing with Macromedia Breeze and it obviously uses embedded IE to talk to the Macromedia site in its powerpoint plugin. Like it or not, the only way to unistall IE is to unistall Windows... Hrm... doesn't