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restart with addons dissabled feature. #3127

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nvaccessAuto opened this issue Apr 4, 2013 · 4 comments
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restart with addons dissabled feature. #3127

nvaccessAuto opened this issue Apr 4, 2013 · 4 comments
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Addon/management In NVDA management of addons by users. close/duplicate enhancement

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Reported by driemer.riemer@... on 2013-04-04 15:00
This feature would be nice if some evil minded person who happened to write an addon for NVDA as a virus such as one that made nvda refuse to shut down or sneak into the system and dynamically steel data that is spoken. As far as I know this type of evil addon hasn't ever been seen with NVDA yet (I hope it never is) but I wrote and tested an addon on my coppy of nvda with a portible copy of nvda ready so I could undo the addon that I wrote which caused nvda to ignore the nvda+q gesture. This proved that someone could make nvda override gestures in windows such as tab with shift tab. A command such as reload with plugins disabled with a gesture that is not over ride-able would be great if this type of nvda virus that I experimented with was ever spoofed as a legit addon on an unofficial addon's page.
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Comment 1 by jteh on 2013-04-24 04:03
If this ever happened, a gesture that can't be overridden is not sufficient. Since an add-on module runs within NVDA itself and is not isolated, the add-on could use many other undocumented techniques to intercept the gesture.

The only workable approach here is to have a safe mode which can be enabled when starting NVDA. This could be done via a command line option.

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Comment 2 by Ahiiron on 2013-04-24 05:42
I like the commandline switch/safe mode idea. No use overcomplicating something that doesn't need to be. :)

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Comment 3 by driemer.riemer@... on 2013-04-24 13:19
Yes I like this idea. That way someone who has this happen would be able to restart in this way.

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Comment 4 by zahari_bgr on 2015-03-04 04:22
Closing as duplicate of #4057

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