AVAST CONTAINS KEYLOGGERS

LoadsaMoney · 14 Oct 2006 at 13:46

As title, got the free Avast from the official Avast Alwil site, and it contains RealSpy Keyloggers.

Updated my Xoftspy yesterday and ran a scan, picked up 7+ RealSpy Keyloggers of Severe Risk, on checking the object details for the loggers, it said it tracks all what you type and redirects them to some FTP site, tracks everything you type in AOL AIM, E-Mails, MSN, ICQ etc... etc...

Didn't think it could be coming from Avast, so removed them, reset PC couple of times, scanned again, and they were back everytime, then thought Avast was the only thing that ive installed recently as ive only been using it a week or so, but it can't be that surely.

Anyway did some testing, removed Avast fully, reset scanned a few times, and nothing found at all, so reinstalled Avast, reset a few times scanned again, and bang, keyloggers were back!!!, so they are coming from Avast, Fully removed it now and gone back to AVG7, not very happy at all as ive been using my online banking while these things have been on!!!.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!.

LoadsaMoney · 14 Oct 2006 at 13:58

Don't know, they definately came from Avast though, as i reset loads of times, scanned, and they came back everytime, then when i removed Avast i did the same, reset and scanned loads of times, and nothing, soon as i re-installed Avast again they came back, so not taking any chances here and gone back to AVG7, don't like the sound of having keyloggers on my machine tracking everything i do.

LoadsaMoney · 14 Oct 2006 at 14:41

Una said:
The thing is if your using the same program to scan its going to pick up avast as a keylogger each time. Try using a different program, or using something like http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/RootkitRevealer.html and paste the results here.

Thats the thing though, it was only the new update that picked it up, when id scanned before id updated my Xoftspy nothing was found, seems like the new update of Xoftspy is picking it up, but i don't know why, so it could be a false positive i suppose then, just don't want to take any chances.

LoadsaMoney · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:42

Must have been false positives, just ran a scan and it found kaza Lite Trojan, in a software/microsoft folder, which is funny as i dont have a software folder, and i dont even have Kaza

, so left it there and ran Adware SE to see if that would pick it up, nope not a thing, Xoftspy again, and it miraculously came back.

What a pile of *****.