![]() ![]() It was discovered by researchers from Modzero. The part of the driver which listens for media shortcut keys automatically logs the keys it sees you press. This appears to be debugging code in the Conexant audio driver, code which should have been removed by Conexant before the driver shipped on PCs. In other words, it’s not malice-just incompetence. However, this could be dangerous, as that sensitive log of keystrokes would be available to malware and may be stored in backups. There’s no evidence that the keylogger actually does anything with the keystrokes it captures beyond saving them to your PC. HP says it has no access to this data, and the keylogger in question does not appear to be malicious. RELATED: Keyloggers Explained: What You Need to Know Why Is My HP Laptop Logging My Keystrokes? ![]()
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