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Kane

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PestPatrol detects aswidle.dll as a Keylogger ?
« on: July 12, 2003, 12:16:31 PM »
Today I launched KeyPatrol from my PestPatrol ver 4.2 and it it is reporting Avast 4's aswidle.dll as a KeyLogger.
Can anyone pls explain if this is in fact the case or that PestPatrol is giving me a false alarm ?  ???
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Re:PestPatrol detects aswidle.dll as a Keylogger ?
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2003, 01:30:38 PM »
I'd rather use another antitrojan or sandboxing utility... as I've found the hard way Pest Patrol's reliability is next to non-existent.  :-\
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Re:PestPatrol detects aswidle.dll as a Keylogger ?
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2003, 10:41:23 AM »
Quote from: Kane on July 12, 2003, 12:16:31 PM
Today I launched KeyPatrol from my PestPatrol ver 4.2 and it it is reporting Avast 4's aswidle.dll as a KeyLogger.
Can anyone pls explain if this is in fact the case or that PestPatrol is giving me a false alarm ?  ???

Yes :) in aswidle.dll we have a suspicious code which PestPatrol can consider for KeyLogger. In fact, in this file we monitor keyboard & mouse requests and when the computer is idle for some minutes we scan & update our recovery database.
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Re:PestPatrol detects aswidle.dll as a Keylogger ?
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2003, 11:33:37 AM »
I might add - but of course, the information about the keys pressed is not stored anywhere - all we need is the information whether the user is working with the computer or not, to start the VRDB generation when the computer is idle.  :)
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