Online Armor detects keystroke logging in SLSK

Submitted by musicmoss on Tue, 09/09/2014 - 21:16
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Soulseek General Discussion

Hello,

When I go to change the download destination folder, online armor warns that "The program SoulseekQt.exe is trying to record keystrokes. A keylogger can compromise passwords or other sensitive information."

If I block this action, I still seem to be able to change my DL destination folder fine. Why would this warning happen? I have never gotten a similar warning about any other program.

Regards.

Submitted by Nir on Wed, 09/10/2014 - 14:34.

Where did you download it from? Not sure what it's detecting, but there's no such thing in SoulseekQt.

Submitted by musicmoss on Wed, 09/10/2014 - 14:50.

I'm quite sure I downloaded it from here, or the previous soulseek site before qt was worked into the URL. The install file is old as I installed it a while ago. The file name is "SoulseekQt-2013-11-6" and it is 5.73mb.

I can post a screenshot of the keylogger warning, or send my install to someone to check it's legitimacy if necessary. It does seem strange that this warning only seems to pop up (so far) when I click the button to change the download file destination. It first warns that soulseek is trying to use explorer (which I allow) and then there is a few seconds delay and the keylogger warning pops up.

Submitted by Nir on Wed, 09/10/2014 - 15:00.

I think Qt uses the built in OS control for file selection in that case. If not, it might be the Qt framework itself that triggers this warning. Either way, there's nothing like keystroke logging implemented in SoulseekQt.