Red Faces all around over the Samsung Keylogger that wasn

Red Faces all around over the Samsung Keylogger that wasn

www.fiercecio.com

A virtual firestorm erupted this week over purported keylogger software in a brand new laptop, discovered by Mohamed Hassan, a certified security professional (CISSP, CISA). The news was first reported on Network World, and had Samsung executives scrambling to disprove the notion that brand-new Samsung machines are infected with malware.

To summarize what transpired, Hassan says he first discovered the potent commercial keylogger StarLogger on two Samsung laptops that he purchased (The first one was returned). A few phone calls and an escalated case eventually saw a support supervisor confi

(visit the link for the full news article)

Well, it has since emerged that the entire case was simply the result of a false-positive detected by antimalware software--in this case VIPRE by Sunbelt Software. You can read the details in a blog entry published on GFI Lab Blog here--Sunbelt Software was acquired by GFI in July 2010.

I heard the news about samsung putting keyloggers in their computers but now that it was a false postive. I think it would be pretty impractical to monitor keystrokes on thousands of computers. What do you think BS or false positive?
Does anyone here have a samsung that they have taken a look out to determine for themselves if there is something like a keystroke logger or anything like that on there?

www.fiercecio.com
(visit the link for the full news article)

reply to post by Darkk


Here is the thing... The AV on this laptop prolly just alerted on the word "Logger"

The AV/ASW community is the cesspool of security products