[access-uk] Re: "Honey Pot"
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:27:04 +0100
Douglas, I tend to think Sandra's thoughts and adviceson Honeypot are most
likely on the
mark. There was quite some discussion around this issue on the Window-Eyes
list a few
months back when V5 of Spysweeper was released. It soon became obvious there
were issues
about Spysweeper interpreting the keyboard actions of W-E users as a keystroke
logger, or
this is what appears to have happened.
At first Spysweeper 5 generated a lot of processor-intensive work, seemingly
because of this
oversight on Webroot's part. It makes you wonder too if, just, maybe,
Spysweeper could get
upset by the video chaining that the three big name screen readers have to use,
but that's
purely speculation on my part.
Like Sandra, I've turned off the keylogger, which Webroot say is not essential
anyway, which
beggs the question as to whether it should have been included until all issues
were
betterknown.
I guess if you really want to run another check you could do worse than
download an
evaluation of Trojan Hunter which appears to be highly regarded. Given you are
running
Spysweeper and NOD32 though, I doubt you've much reason to be concerned.
Maybe, Douglas if you are still reading this, you could enlighten me, off list
if you like,
as to the precise advantage of download managers.
From Ray
I can be contacted off-list at:
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
Of Douglas Harrison
Thanks for the clarification, Sandra. I will sleep better
tonight! After the message from Simon I was becoming quite worried
and have avoided activities like on-line banking in case log on
details etc. were vulnerable. Articles in the press yesterday and on
the radio had made me even more security conscious than usual.
Douglas
At 20:56 10/10/2006, you wrote:
>Hello Douglas,
>The honey pot thing is to do with the key logger shield in Spy Sweeper. If
>you go into the shields settings and turn the keylogger shield off by
>unchecking the box, you shouldn't hear it any more. As someone else on the
>list said, Webroot know about it so maybe they'll fix it when they next
>update the program. They do say they've got extra back-up to protect
>against key loggers so you won't be at risk if you turn the key logger
>shield off. As soon as I turned mine off, I got rid of the honey pot.
>Hope this is of some use.
>
>Cheers,
>Sandra.
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