Korean giant Samsung has hit back at claims that secret spyware was installed on R525 notebooks, saying security software used to test the notebooks mistook a folder for the keylogger software StarLogger.
Samsung’s Australian PR released the following announcement a few moments ago.
Reports that a keylogger was installed in Samsung laptops are not true. Our findings indicate that the person mentioned in the article used a security program called VIPRE that mistook a folder created by Microsoft Live Application for a key logging software, during a virus scan.
Online new site Network World originally reported that keylogging spyware tool StarLogger was found on two Samsung R525 notebooks.
More to come…
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