Makes you wish you had a Dell

Eli · Post by **Eli** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:39 pm

Apparently Dell computers has been installing keyloggers on your laptops without your knowledge.

http://www.revereradionetwork.com/phpBB ... =keylogger

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~jdam ... z/lol.html

unreal.... wonder if Dell figured out the cost of adding the Department of Homeland Security mandated keylogger to the laptop and then added a 30% markup or simply absorbed the cost. Not as frivolous as one might think, if they charged you for that and made a profit they are selling you stuff you didn't buy and profiting for it.... I smell a class action suit...

Dude! makes ya wish you had a Dell.

Post by **Art** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:46 am

It's tempting to believe that the keylogger story. I don't have a Dell, but I suspect that if I could take one apart I wouldn't find this gizmo in there.

This article below claims this is a hoax:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp
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Está tentadora creer que la historia del "keylogger" [anota de teclas?]. No tengo un Dell, pero sospecho que si podría desmontarlo no encontraría este aparatito dentro.

Este artículo abajo afirma que es un engano:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/dellbug.asp

Eli · Post by **Eli** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:23 am

Yup, darn it, and I fell for it... ahh geez lol

"just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they are not after you"

Xose · Post by **Xose** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:10 pm

Always go to SNOPES.COM first! I learned that the hard way, too....