[vbox-dev] VBox has a malicious code that disables "Disable Auto Capture keyboard" option.

[Frank Mehnert]

On Thursday 21 July 2011 08:38:38 crocket wrote:
> On lines 620-623 in UIKeyboardHandler.cpp,
> 
> /* Reset the single-time disable capture flag: */
> if (isAutoCaptureDisabled())
>     setAutoCaptureDisabled(false);
> break;
> 
> 
> Those lines seem to disable "Disable Auto Capture keyboard" option.
> 
> Am I right?

This code is not malicious. Before you write such reports you should
understand the code.

> Who put this malicious code?

That code was committed by an Oracle VirtualBox developer as only
members of the VirtualBox developer team have permissions to commit
code.

Kind regards,

Frank
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