Samsung laptop keylogger almost certainly a false positive
Found on Ars Technica on Thursday, 31 March 2011
Upon further examination, however, the allegations appear to be incorrect. Samsung is claiming that the result is simply a false positive.
After Samsung made its claim, security software company F-Secure went a step further, and demonstrated that VIPRE will indeed identify a directory named C:WindowsSL as StarLogger - even if the directory is empty.
Neither Hassan nor NetworkWorld, who published his claims, provided any evidence beyond the directory name; no logging binaries, no logs, no e-mail traffic or screenshots.
Good for Samsung that things turned out to be a false alarm. Means that they won't make it on the "do not buy" list like Sony. Although the supervisor who said that they monitor performance and usage didn't help to clear things up.