[DaveW]

Another large corporate playing dirty.... Well colour me surprised!

Samsung is reportedly installing secret spyware software on its laptops that monitors and records users' activity - including their keystrokes - without their consent.

 

[valve bouncer]

Samsung might as well close down their laptop division now and tell everyone to go home.

 

[DaveW]

It's not that bad, but if true it is quite embarrassing for them.

 

[Sghost]

Samsung has been going the extra mile with shady software for a while now.

 

[valve bouncer]

I wanna hear what Eaterofdog has to say about all this.

 

[binary visions]

Yep, it appears to be false:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/samsung-reportedly-installing-keylogger-software-on-r525-privac/

Update 2: Samsung's official Korean language blog, Samsung Tomorrow, has a posted an update calling the findings false. According to Samsung, the confusion arose when the VIPRE security software mistakenly identified Microsoft's Slovene language folder ("SL") as Starlogger, which Sammy was able to recreate from an empty c:\windows\SL folder (see image above). So yeah, move along, it's much ado about nothing -- the R525 and R540 laptops are perfectly safe.

I didn't honestly believe that Samsung would install something that common virus scanners would pick up.

 

[syadasti]

Yeah Samsung did not rip off "Sony Style" innovation.

The original source has admitted their mistake too:

"This has been confirmed at F-Secure and two other publications, here and here.The headline on this article has been changed to reflect this new information.": http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2011/032811sec2.html?page=2

 

[IH8Rice]