Re:Windows' Undocumented “Emergency Restart”
by rzzzt on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @02:42PM
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A group policy can be enabled on most variants of Windows (dating back to around NT 4 or Windows 2000, I think) to start with a dialog saying "Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to begin", and pretty much nothing else, exactly for the reasons you describe.
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Re:Windows' Undocumented “Emergency Restart”
by WorldMaker on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:00PM
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Though Microsoft's current security recommendation is against setting that policy for accessibility reasons. [0]
Windows since 8 has worked on hardening/strengthening the "Secure Desktop" that login flows (and UAC prompts) happen on so that as much as possible malware shouldn't be able to run in those sandboxes.
[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pro...