Key Logger in SmartDefrag?

My system detected a memory resident key logger upon installing IObit's SmartDefrag 2.0 beta downloaded from this site. Couldn't find anything in the posts about it, but the software is getting heavy download traffic. Can anyone else confirm or dispute this discovery?

Happy New Year

 

This is probably a False Positive.

The file scans clean with pretty much every other concievable AV application

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Antivirus 		Version 	Update 		Result 

AntiVir 		7.3.0.21 	01.02.2007  	no virus found 
Authentium 		4.93.8 		12.30.2006  	no virus found 
Avast 			4.7.892.0 	12.30.2006  	no virus found 
AVG 			386 		01.02.2007  	no virus found 
BitDefender 		7.2 		01.02.2007  	no virus found 
CAT-QuickHeal 		8.00 		01.01.2007  	no virus found 
ClamAV 			devel-20060426 	01.02.2007  	no virus found 
DrWeb 			4.33 		01.02.2007  	no virus found 
eSafe 			7.0.14.0 	01.02.2007  	no virus found 
eTrust-InoculateIT 	23.73.102 	12.30.2006  	no virus found 
eTrust-Vet 		30.3.3296 	01.02.2007  	no virus found 
Ewido			4.0 		01.01.2007  	no virus found 
Fortinet 		2.82.0.0 	01.02.2007  	no virus found 
F-Prot 			3.16f 		12.30.2006  	no virus found 
F-Prot4 		4.2.1.29 	12.30.2006  	no virus found 
Ikarus 			T3.1.0.27 	01.02.2007  	no virus found 
Kaspersky 		4.0.2.24 	01.02.2007  	no virus found 
McAfee 			4929 		12.29.2006  	no virus found 
Microsoft 		1.1904 		01.02.2007  	no virus found 
NOD32v2 		1952 		01.02.2007  	no virus found 
Norman 			5.80.02 	12.31.2007  	no virus found 
Panda 			9.0.0.4 	01.01.2007  	no virus found 
Prevx1 			V2 		01.02.2007  	no virus found 
Sophos 			4.13.0 		01.02.2007  	no virus found 
Sunbelt 		2.2.907.0 	12.18.2006  	no virus found 
TheHacker 		6.0.3.141 	01.01.2007  	no virus found 
UNA 			1.83 		12.29.2006  	no virus found 
VBA32 			3.11.1 		01.01.2007  	no virus found 
VirusBuster 		4.3.19:9 	01.02.2007 	no virus found 

All files are stringently tested before being listed on this site. I don't think you have anything to worry about but you might consider contacting Pest Patrol and qerying this entry.

 

Thanks - I've been doing scans and manual searches for the dll's and associated files and cannot find anything either. I sent this to IObit as a bug report and notified PestPatrol.

Thanks for the quick response.

BZ

 

In addition to the AV checkers did you run any other spyware-specific scanners?

 

No. Im not on my test machine at the moment, I scanned it with the listed AV programs using www.virustotal.com

 

I uninstalled and reinstalled after updating PestPatrol's latest def files. Got the same apparent false positive. As I told matt.chugg, I reported this in a bug report to IObit and sent a note to PestPatrol.

I've never had a false positive from PP before. I'm sure it's possible. Thanks.

Cheers,

BZ

 

On my work machine I use both. Spy Sweeper was not running on the machine that got the SmartDefrag install, however. I find SS annoying as they come but effective. Nevertheless, PP still catches stuff SD S&D, Ad-Aware and SS don't. I agree they've slipped but I sure like their cookie killer.

Cheers