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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I suspect the thoroughness of the vetting is inversely proportional to the size of the kickback to Microsoft.

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

Got me curious. Quick search and I found three windows drivers that had keyloggers hidden in them. Go figure it was HP!

HP Notebook Keyboard Drivers: Keylogging code was discovered in the SynTP.sys file, which was part of the Synaptics Touchpad driver shipped with certain HP notebook models.
HP Audio Drivers: Researchers found keylogging features within the Conexant HD Audio Driver (specifically version 1.0.0.46 and earlier) used in various HP laptops and other Windows systems.

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