It has emerged that Samsung's laptops have clandestine spyware application pre-installed to watch as well as intercept users' operations, one of them being logging their keystrokes, devoid of taking their permission, stated smh.com.au dated March 31, 2011.
Stated security consultant Mohamed Hassan at Canada-based NetSec Consulting Corp, after he purchased the computer models R540 and R525 from Samsung he discovered that they had clandestine software normally called Spyware, which read all the keystrokes of an end-user even from PCs that were password-protected. Hassan told that it wasn't possible to detect the software that became active every time the PC started, reported smh.com.au.
And soon after Hassan made his discovery, he called Samsung, which, however, denied his allegations initially. But when Hassan persisted, the Customer Support came on board and said that the company loaded the keyloggers for acquiring details of customer usage.
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