Be careful if you have a HP laptop.

Question

Your HP laptop may be quietly recording everything you are typing on your Hewlett-Packard (HP) keyboard.Thorsten Schroeder from the Switzerland-based security firm Modzero has found a built-in keylogger (MicTray64.exe or MicTray.exe) in an HP audio driver that record all your keystrokes.

The issue, according to Schroeder, is that keystrokes are logged to a file in the C:\Users\Public\MicTray.log. Keystrokes are sent on to the OutputDebugString debugging API, allowing a process to reach the data via the MapViewOfFile function.

Are you affected or not?

Check the following files in your system, if they exist then you are affected by the keylogger:

C:\Windows\System32\MicTray64.exe
C:\Windows\System32\MicTray.exe

Answer 1

Really ??? Thanks

Answer 2

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/05/12/hp-issues-urgent-security-update-laptops-found-secretly-save/

Answer 3

Ohhhh :O
Thanks for sharing
Btw I didn't use hp at all

Answer 4

so do we delete that directory

Answer 5

Its always pleasure to help.

Answer 6

Modzero security firm recommends that you delete or rename the executable files (MicTray64.exe or MicTray.exe) and the MicTray.log log file from \Users\Public, so that no keystrokes are recorded anymore, until a fix becomes available

Answer 7

Thanks bro

Answer 8

same case for Asus

Answer 9

Df