[access-uk] Re: "Honey Pot"
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:58:04 +0100
Hi Ray,
Go to http://www.randylaptop.com. Sean Randall has produced a very goot
podcast on Free Download Manager. It is an excellent utility, and I assure
you, it contains no spyware.
All the best
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Ray's Home
Sent: 10 October 2006 22:27
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: "Honey Pot"
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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