Problem with JkdefragGUI by Emro.nl? Comments please!

[BrownSugar]

I was looking to check and see if Emiel Wieldraaijer (http://www.emro.nl/freeware/) had an upgrade for his JkdefragGUI, so I went to Kessels.com to look for his link and it was gone.

 

Then I checked the Kessels.com forum, and saw this argument between the two parties as to whether there was a keylogger embedded in the JkdefragGUI. Apparently it has to do with Emiel's use of the Autoit program when compiling JkdefragGUI.

 

http://www.kessels.com/forum/index.php?topic=1104.0

 

 

Per Jeroen Kessels on May 3, 2008:

 

http://www.kessels.com/forum/index.php?PHP...msg6847#msg6847

 

Emiel's GUI has generated false warnings from certain virus scanners in the past. This keylogger thing is new to me, and I'm sure it's a false positive again, but I've had enough. All these false positives are giving JkDefrag a bad name, so I'm afraid I'm going to remove the link to Emiel's GUI from the JkDefrag homepage.

 

The next post by the author of JkdefragGUI is quite descriptive in denying any malware problems with JKdefragGUI and intended for mature audiences, so I'll just post the link:

 

http://www.kessels.com/forum/index.php?PHP...msg6854#msg6854

 

 

I've been using Emiel's GUI for Jkdefrag for several years. He also includes several other nice utilities (that I already had installed). It's hard to believe that this nice little program which has been recommended on so many blogs could contain spyware.

 

I just found this thread on the Online Armor forum. That's the program that first picked up the problem with the GUI:

 

Question OA paid says JkDefrag GUI v1.01 is a KEYLOGGER!- FP?

 

 

The last post of the Online Armour thread is from the Administrator.

 

http://support.tallemu.com/vbforum/showpos...mp;postcount=37

 

Sorry, firstly to Emiel that I haven't jumped in earlier.

 

Let me start by saying: The program concerned is 100% safe. You have nothing at all to worry about.

 

Let me explain to you the way Online Armor (and my brain) works in standard mode.

 

What it is supposed to do is help you keep nasties off your computer. So, first of all - we can control which programs start, which programs are allowed to do things that *might* be keylogging (more on this in a moment) and which programs can do all kinds of things.

 

What Online Armor does is it detects a method that could be used for keystroke logging. It does not (and cannot) make any determination if that is actually happening.

 

 

In summary, it appears that the program is clean, but the link to Emro.nl's GUI program is no longer on Kessels.com Jkdefrag page.

 

Does anyone have any updated information?

[davey]

I was looking to check and see if Emiel Wieldraaijer (http://www.emro.nl/freeware/) had an upgrade for his JkdefragGUI, so I went to Kessels.com to look for his link and it was gone.

 

http://support.tallemu.com/vbforum/showpos...mp;postcount=37

 

 

 

 

In summary, it appears that the program is clean, but the link to Emro.nl's GUI program is no longer on Kessels.com Jkdefrag page.

 

Does anyone have any updated information?

Only that Kessels had to do it or remain on the "blacklist".

Now it is apparently up tp Emiel to pack it differently and get off the "list" also.

davey

[fireryone]

Just as well most other sites don't take false positives that seriously, or CCleaner wouldn't be found anywhere but here case of F/P's....

Maybe both sites should just include a bit of info explaining that it is currently detected as a keylogger/spyware false positive by [insert anti-software name here]

 

Sad to see good software get a bad name.