Author Topic: Keyboard logger in Avast 4.0??  (Read 4120 times)

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lt37

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Keyboard logger in Avast 4.0??
« 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?

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Re:Keyboard logger in Avast 4.0??
« Reply #1 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.

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Re:Keyboard logger in Avast 4.0??
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2003, 01:33:46 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
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Pavel Baudis

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Re:Keyboard logger in Avast 4.0??
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2003, 07:55:38 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 once...

Pavel