Topic: Samsung laptops have keyloggers preinstalled on them?

Anonymous A started this discussion 15 years ago #8,684

http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/03/keyloggers-in-samsung-laptops-officials.html

What the hell?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 37 seconds later[^] [v] #152,762

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/samsung_keylogger_rumour_debunked/

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 53 seconds later, 1 minute after the original post[^] [v] #152,763

Who the fuck buys a samsung laptop anyway?

Anonymous B replied with this 15 years ago, 31 seconds later, 2 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #152,765

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20048896-245.html
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215396/GFI_apologizes_for_false_alarm_on_Samsung_keyloggers
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/starlogger-keylogger-samsung-Mohamed-Hassan,12491.html

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 4 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #152,770

@152,762 (B)
lol'd

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 minute later, 5 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #152,771

@152,762 (B)

The Slovenian language version of the suite creates a folder called C:\Windows\SL, the same folder name as is used by the StarLogger application and it was this that was causing alarm bells to ring.

Because no one else might create a directory named "sl"?? Way to write a scanner, guys. I suppose false positives are encouraged in the AV industry as it makes it look like the software is actually doing something.

hamfist !!mtq555+/1 joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #152,882

I use Acer

advi !!3gpAcg/hF joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #152,885

You should wipe your laptop clean with a fresh Windows install anyway.

Minichan