Eine Gruppe von Fans veröffentlichte vor kurzem Sonic 2 HD, eine Alpha-Version einer sehr schicken Hommage an Segas klassischen Platformer. Das Spiel bietet sogar einen unerwarteten Bonus: kostenlose Keylogger für alle!
Es wird berichtet, dass ein Mitarbeiter eines Antiviren-Unternehmens bestätigt hat, dass Kopien des Spiels ein „keylogging program as part of the Sonic 2 HD alpha software2 beinhalten.
Keyloggers werden verwendet, um zu überwachen, welche Tasten des Keyboards von einem Nutzer gedrückt werden, um so an Passwörter und ähnlich sensible Daten zu kommen.
Hier ist das vollständige Statement zu dieser Angelegenheit:
Earlier today, I was contacted by a professional antivirus employee who was interested in why Sonic 2 HD consistently popped up as a threat by multiple antivirus software programs and did some investigation. His results showed that a keylogger is part of the Sonic 2 HD software. After receiving this notification, we conducted our own independent tests and found that there is indeed a keylogging program as part of the Sonic 2 HD alpha software.
I want to emphasize that at this time, we have found no evidence that the software has been "phoning home" any data-only that we have found the capability exists.
Because this vulnerability has been found, we are strongly advising that the software be removed. You will need to delete the files included with the Sonic 2 HD zip, as well as the registry keys hooked at HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/NakaSMK (if you are unfamiliar on how to do this, go to Start->Run.., type regedit, follow the folder path, and then delete the NakaSMK folder.)
We will have more information on the situation as it evolves.
Außerdem hat es den Anschein, als habe es hinter den Kulissen des Projekts so manche Streitereien gegeben.
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