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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: rdavidwolfe on August 19, 2004, 02:37:16 pm

Title: spyware
Post by: rdavidwolfe on August 19, 2004, 02:37:16 pm

I did a backup of my zaurus to my computers hardrive a few months ago.  Yesterday I ran a spyware search program.  It found in the backup files a keyboard logger.  "INET" I believe, will have to double check.  

Has anyone else done a backup of their zaurus and then ran a spyware checker against it.   It said on mine that it would send passwords etc via an internet connection.

Title: spyware
Post by: lpotter on August 19, 2004, 03:16:59 pm

Was your spyware search program specifically designed for use with Linux? What was the full path for this supposed keylogger?

Title: spyware
Post by: iamasmith on August 20, 2004, 05:23:50 am

If this is one of the later sharp roms (I'm not sure about the earlier as I have an SL-C860) then the backup file is actually a tar archive.

You can extract all the files using Linux tar or rename to .tar and extract with WinZip, this will let you do a more granular scan to find the cause.

ClamAV may be of interest (www.clamav.net) as a freebie AV scanner which runs on Linux.

I think there's actually a port knocking round for the Z but it's an early version.