Originally Posted By: tman
Samsung apparently have preinstalled spyware on their laptops?

If this article is accurate and Samsung are actually installing spyware which does screencaps and keylogging then its got to rate up there as one of the most stupid ideas ever.
It cost Sony more than half a Billion dollars just in fines and reparations in the 2005 rootkit scandal, and nobody knows how much in indirect expenses. (For example, I have not given Sony a dime of my money since 2005, and I hope that others have done the same.)

This could make the Sony scandal look like a tempest in a teapot.

My wife has a Samsung netbook that apparently is not affected (there is no C:\Windows\SL directory) but depending on how this develops, Samsung will forever be off my shopping list.

tanstaafl.
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