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GFI apologizes for false alarm on Samsung keyloggers

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TL;DR - The software that "detected" the keyloggger was wrong, and the company that makes it acknowledged that.

The guy's apology was an actual apology, not spin. That was refreshing.

I'm not clicking all these links about this bit of news, but I'm not seeing any headlines about all the other crap OEMs really do put on computers. I was hoping an event like this might get more attention to all that rubbish we don't ever want, and we know what it really does unlike most users.

This is actually probably going to be great publicity for Samsung - who even knew they sold workstations and laptops?

My favorite part of the old article was

  The findings are false-positive proof since I have used the tool that discovered it for six years now and I am yet to see it misidentify an item throughout the years.

  -M. E. Kabay
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