Keylogger

Scanning the internet for some malware today I came across a legitimate (questionable) free keylogger. Having downloaded and scanned it I was surprised to see only KAV give a warning.

I know it's not technically a virus but I would like to be warned about it especially when AVs give you the option to check for "potentially harmful" stuff.

What do you feel about this ?

 

Virustotal ..

 

Its not malware because:

1)Its legitimate
2)It only logs your every keystroke if you choose so
3)You can remove it if you want, which is not the case with malware-like keyloggers
4)It is not giving the logged keystrokes to anyone on the Internet without your consent

Regards,
Firecat

 

A keylogger not malware? Its malware if someone else put it on your machine without you knowing about it. Chances are even Kaspersky would pick this up only with the X bases. It is part of their policy and they say so somewhere on their web site.

You know, those four conditions of not malware would be met by a hardware keylogger. People have picked up criminall charges for using those on the sly.

 

Well OK I blundered.

KAV picks it up even with normal bases (It is detected by name TrojanSpy)....Dunno why others have ignored it.

Tomorrow I'll be reporting this keylogger to ArcaBit/Stormbyte...So ArcaVir will also detect it soon.