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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Samsung "keylogger" believed to be false positive
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Thu Mar 31 11:58:13 2011
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Samsung "keylogger" believed to be false positive
http://j.mp/eFiAM2 (Network World)
"Samsung has issued a statement saying that the finding is false. The
statement says the software used to detect the keylogger, VIPRE, can
be fooled by Microsoft's Live Application multi-language support
folder. This has been confirmed at F-Secure and two other
publications, here and here. Still no explanation for why Samsung
originally confirmed the keylogger's existence to Hassan ... "
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