Samsung Keylogger Stories a False Alarm

Trailrunner7 writes "The panic that arose yesterday about Samsung allegedly shipping laptops that contained a pre-installed keylogger turns out to have been a complete mistake after further investigation by security researchers and the company itself. In fact, the controversy was the result of a false positive from one commercial antimalware suite and nothing else. Several outlets reported on Wednesday that Samsung laptops had been found to contain a keylogger known as StarLogger right out of the box from the factory. However, upon closer inspection by security companies, the folder on the laptops that supposedly contained the malware was actually a directory that is part of Windows' multi-language support."

I don't care about facts.

[mevets]

I still hate the keylogging bastards that they are, and I want to see the whole company in jail...

Re:epic FAIL

[ifrag]

It could have been worse, they could have scanned it with McAfee and rendered the machine unable to boot.