Re: Google Earth and SpyWare?

James wrote: 
R. McCarty wrote:

How do you know that it was Google Earth that installed it ?

I'm using 3.0.0464 and none of my Security tools have found
or indicated a keylogger is installed. Are you running the Free
version of Google Earth or one of the paid versions. Are you
sure the AB System was really on the PC - many of these tools
will sometimes give you a "False Positive" result.

"James" <leushinonospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OVatywOnFHA.2472@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yesterday I installed Google Earth (beta) on my computer. This morning I ran CounterSpy and low and behold it discovered a commercial keylogger (AB System) placed there by Google Earth. At first I quarantined it but then I decided to remove it. My anti-spyware rated it a serious threat. Does anyone have any information on this? I've tried getting answers from CounterSpy but so far no success. 




Oh... and as a second thought:

My wife also installed this free version of Google Earth on her computer... ran the same scan this morning and got the same results: AB System Keylogger... serious threat. We quarantined it and Google Earth would no longer work on her computer as well. As soon as we ran a "Repair" on Google Earth, the keylogger was replaced and the program ran perfectly. So... what is the real story here? 

Latest report:
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Hi James,

We looked into that, and this is a false positive.
We will fix it ASAP!

The CounterSpy Team
.

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