I ran Spy Sweeper on my Win98SE machine, and it says it found
"WinKeyGenie." Here's the description of the file that I got from
http://www.webroot.com/php/spysweeper_spydesc.php:
"This spy is a:
System Monitor
System monitors are applications designed to monitor computer activity to
various degrees. These programs can capture virtually everything you do on
your computer including recording all keystrokes, emails, chat room
dialogue, web sites visited, and programs run. System monitors usually run
in the background so that you do not know that you are being monitored. The
information gathered by the system monitor is stored on your computer in an
encrypted log file for later retrieval. Some programs are capable of
emailing the log files to another location.
Traditionally, system monitors had to be installed by someone with
administrative access to your computer, such as a system administrator or
someone that shares your computer. However, there has been a recent wave of
system monitoring tools disguised as email attachments or "freeware"
software products."
Now I checked the path, and it takes me here-
c:\windows\setup1.exe
I checked the description of the executable from its properties, and it
shows that it was written by Microsoft.
Now is this some kind of program that Microsoft uses to spy on you without
your knowledge, or what? It's currently quarantined, and my performance
doesn't seem to be suffering, so I'm tempted to get rid of it. Should I,
or should I not? What do you think? Thanks in advance.
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