+The Cached Potatoes Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 I just ran a copy of Webroot Spy Sweeper (a well-regarded program to remove spyware from your computer). It says it found a copy of "Hacker Wacker" spyware in my c:\program files\gsak directory. It shows it as c:\program files\gsak\irunin.lng According to Spy Sweeper, "HackerWacker is a monitoring utility that records all of your computer activity and then saves the captured information into an encrypted log file for later retrieval." Anybody else, or is it just me? Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 Hmmm... I've got Spy Bot on my laptop which has a fresh install of GSAK. I'll have to see what it turns up. Quote Link to comment
+planetrobert Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 I'm gonna guess that it was just installed in a random folder. I can't see it being an intentional thing. Quote Link to comment
+The Cached Potatoes Posted December 3, 2004 Author Share Posted December 3, 2004 It may be a false-positive, too. Quote Link to comment
+Rubberhead Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 I have the same file in my GSAK directory. I'm looking into ways to get rid of it. Quote Link to comment
+Rubberhead Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 I've checked for other signs of infection but can't find any. I'm guessing right now that whoever compiled the GSAK was infected and just happened to pack that one file. I deleted the file and don't believe that I have the homewatcher infection. Quote Link to comment
+caderoux Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 I really think this is a false positive. I looked at all the irunin.* files, and they seem to have legit content. Quote Link to comment
+ClydeE Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 I really think this is a false positive. I looked at all the irunin.* files, and they seem to have legit content. Correct, it is a false positive. It is only the latest version of Webroot Spy Sweeper that has decided to list this file for some reason. It is definintely not a copy of "Hacker Wacker" Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted December 4, 2004 Share Posted December 4, 2004 Spy Bot found lots of stuff but not that. Quote Link to comment
+drobik Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Imho, this is false alert "irunin.lng" looks like text messages with some binary indexes (or what?) Quote Link to comment
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