my app started spewing odd output
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...as usual, I don't know what I did to cause this. This app has been working without this behavior for several days. A couple of hours ago, I began to get this output:
*******A..........Anikash********* *******B..........Anikash********* [what follow is displayed after my widget.show() call] Window Class Name - [Qt5QWindowIcon] Hook() - HCBT_CREATEWND child/popup window *******A..........Anikash********* *******B..........Anikash********* *******A..........Anikash********* *******B..........Anikash********* *******A..........Anikash********* *******B..........Anikash********* *******Activated..........Anikash********* HCBT_SETFOCUS Before HCBT_SETFOCUS Before *******A..........Anikash********* *******B..........Anikash********* *******A..........Anikash********* *******B..........Anikash********* *******A..........Anikash********* *******B..........Anikash********* *******Activated..........Anikash********* HCBT_SETFOCUS Before HCBT_SETFOCUS BeforeI've deleted the build directory, done a clean and a qmake, and I'm getting the same results.
Any idea what I did to cause this? And who is Anikash?Thanks...
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Hi,
Got any update / new software on your machine ?
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Contents of my project file:
#------------------------------------------------- # # Project created by QtCreator 2017-09-08T14:17:25 # #------------------------------------------------- QT += core gui serialport greaterThan(QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4): QT += widgets TARGET = [removed by mzimmers for posting to Qt forum] TEMPLATE = app # The following define makes your compiler emit warnings if you use # any feature of Qt which has been marked as deprecated (the exact warnings # depend on your compiler). Please consult the documentation of the # deprecated API in order to know how to port your code away from it. DEFINES += QT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS # You can also make your code fail to compile if you use deprecated APIs. # In order to do so, uncomment the following line. # You can also select to disable deprecated APIs only up to a certain version of Qt. #DEFINES += QT_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_BEFORE=0x060000 # disables all the APIs deprecated before Qt 6.0.0 SOURCES += \ main.cpp \ widget.cpp \ serial.cpp \ aes.cpp \ file.cpp \ xmlparser.cpp \ encryption.cpp \ authentication.cpp \ tlsdata.cpp HEADERS += \ widget.h \ serial.h \ aes.h \ file.h \ xmlparser.h \ encryption.h \ authentication.h \ tlsdata.h FORMS += \ widget.ui -
@mzimmers Run this on your project directory:
grep -rins "anikash"and see if there are any results. That is either coming from your code or once I saw someone replaced the machine compiler to mess without another coder. The compiler did similar stuff. That would be a lot of effort to go through to mess with someone imo but it happens.
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HCBT_SETFOCUSis a parameter received from a callback toSetWindowsHookEx(). Basically it's a system wide hook to app events, which means something on your system registered it. It's not necessarily your app or anything related to Qt. If it's not your app it can be anything from a driver, some utility app to some malware.
As to who Anikash is - probably someone who wrote the thing. Why is he hooking to other applications events? - good question. -
Aww... no fun :) I was going to suggest to write your own debug hook to sniff who's sniffing you, but oh well. I'm glad I could help ;)
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@Chris-Kawa
Haha i was about to ask you if it was possible to enumerate which process installed the
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@mzimmers
I doubt any exec would be bothered. I don't want to sound prejudiced or anything but I've worked for a large, heartless corporation like LG once and so called "low cost production sites" (often meaning equally low quality) of such companies are almost exclusively located in the part of the world where Anikash is a pretty popular name. I mean people would be scared to use any electronics if they knew the quality of some of that code...
I guess it's like knowing we're all living on a melted lava core rock, speeding through frozen void and shielded from deadly radiation by a paper thin shroud of gas. Some stuff you just have to suppress and learn to live with or you'd go insane :)
