Samsung Might Get into Trouble for Laptops Preinstalled Spyware

March 30, 2011 - PRLog -- Samsung-branded devices have long enjoyed broad popularity due to its unique design and sound functionality and every newly-launched product will become focus. But now Samsung will be probably involved in trouble since some customer of Samsung laptop found keylogging software preinstalled in his Samsung PC which he bought not long. This spyware is able to monitor every keystroke that the user makes on his laptop PC.

Words come from a customer of Samsung laptop, who is a Toronto security researcher. He detected StarLogger on his machine with a rootkit scanner, deleted it, and later returned his laptop to the store where he bought it after experiencing a problem with a video driver. The second machine that he brought home also came pre-installed with StarLogger. Though it is not sure that whether all Samsung laptops are preinstalled this software, the chances are ample. It is now definitely a trouble that might drag Samsung to scandal.

The software preinstalled in the Samsung laptops is called StarLogger, which its maker boasts is "completely undetectable and starts up whenever your computer starts up."StarLogger is a publicly available keylogging tool that can capture anything typed into a machine as well screenshots and send that data silently to an email address that the installer chooses.

Though it is yet to know why Samsung does so on its laptops, it harms the privacies of the users. And some sensible users would very likely to bring Samsung to the court. It seems that Samsung needs to give a reasonable explanation to the customers. Reputation is hard to build but easy to lose.

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