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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: lt37 on November 27, 2003, 12:37:29 AM

Title: Keyboard logger in Avast 4.0??
Post by: lt37 on November 27, 2003, 12:37:29 AM

I recently ran Pest Patrol to detect for keyloggers and it listed
ASWIDLE.dll as a keyboard logger.  What is this .dll monitoring?

Title: Re:Keyboard logger in Avast 4.0??
Post by: pk on November 27, 2003, 01:22:16 AM

aswIdle.dll monitors keyboard and mouse requests and if the computer was idle for some minutes, avast scans and update VRDB database. There are no keys which we would save/send anywhere, we just use it for user idle detection.

Title: Re:Keyboard logger in Avast 4.0??
Post by: Lisandro on November 27, 2003, 01:33:46 AM

Quote from: pk on November 27, 2003, 01:22:16 AM

aswIdle.dll monitors keyboard and mouse requests and if the computer was idle for some minutes, avast scans and update VRDB database. There are no keys which we would save/send anywhere, we just use it for user idle detection.

I confirm what pk said...
aswIdle.dll never asks for Internet access (or Server rights) in my firewall (ZoneAlarm) and never was detected with a trojan or spyware behavior.

It's as safe as all avast! package  ;D

Title: Re:Keyboard logger in Avast 4.0??
Post by: Pavel Baudis on November 27, 2003, 07:55:38 AM

Quote from: lt37 on November 27, 2003, 12:37:29 AM

I recently ran Pest Patrol to detect for keyloggers and it listed
ASWIDLE.dll as a keyboard logger.  What is this .dll monitoring?

Well, it monitors the keyboard but does not log anything, so it can't be keyboard logger ;).

Actually, it is false alarm by Pest Patrol which has already been discussed here (http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=2;action=display;threadid=682) once...

Pavel