Wednesday, November 5th, 2008, 4:56 pm
Internet Cafe No Longer Honours Privacy?
asyInternetCafe (354-358 Oxford Street, London) appears to have nice little spyware running on PCs in the Internet Cafe. Is this legal, ethical or safe? It’s now run under the brand name Swirl.
So here I was in an Internet Cafe in Oxford St. and all these applications were running on it. What do they do? What does it do for security? Is it just for users’ security or so-called ‘national security’ too? They already put keyloggers in India, so it would be shameful to find the same thing in the UK.
Here is what was running, ID information stripped off.
| Name |
Rating |
PID |
CPU |
Memory |
Active |
File |
Type |
Start |
Title, Description |
Manufacturer : product |
| Remote Administrator v2.2 |
54% |
472 |
|
|
|
C:\WINDOWS\system32\r_server.exe |
Program |
20:32:15 |
Remote control tool – Server part |
: Remote Administrator |
| Windows Live Sign-in Assistant |
46% |
|
|
|
|
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll |
Internet |
when Internet Explorer starts |
WindowsLiveLogin.dll – IDBHO.IDBrowserExtension.1 (Browser Extension) |
Microsoft Corporation : Microsoft? Windows Live Login Helper |
| CafeAgent 3.49g |
44% |
1956 |
|
|
|
C:\Program Files\CafeAgent\CafeAgent.exe |
Program |
19:32:07 |
|
SOFCIK : CafeAgent of CafeSuite |
| SpStart.exe |
31% |
1992 |
|
|
|
C:\Program Files\CafeSuite Recovery Module\1.0\SpStart.exe |
Taskicon |
19:32:11 |
CafeSuite Recovery Module |
- |
| hkcmd Module |
24% |
1712 |
|
3.8 MB |
|
C:\WINDOWS\system32\hkcmd.exe |
Program |
19:32:02 when Windows starts, Registry: Machine\Run |
HkWndName |
Intel Corporation : Intel(R) Common User Interface |
| PC Tools AntiVirus Engine |
23% |
256 |
|
|
|
C:\Program Files\PC Tools AntiVirus\PCTAVSvc.exe |
Program |
20:32:12 |
|
PC Tools : PC Tools AntiVirus Engine |
| Surfovisor Client Service |
21% |
608 |
|
|
|
C:\Program Files\SurfovisorClient\Surfovisor.exe |
Taskicon |
20:32:17 |
Surfovisor, Server |
PhaseFive AG : Surfovisor |
| Windows Live Sign-in Assistant |
21% |
3564 |
|
7.4 MB |
|
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WLLoginProxy.exe |
Program |
22:17:52 |
WLLoginProxy.exe |
Microsoft Corporation : Microsoft? Windows Live Login Helper |
| Windows User Mode Driver Manager |
16% |
672 |
|
|
|
C:\WINDOWS\system32\wdfmgr.exe |
Program |
20:32:17 |
|
Microsoft Corporation : Microsoft? Windows? Operating System |
| CafeAgent 3.49g |
6% |
1792 |
|
15.6 MB |
0:05 |
C:\Program Files\CafeAgent\CafeAgent.exe |
Program |
19:32:03 when Windows starts, Registry: Machine\Run |
CafeAgent |
SOFCIK : CafeAgent of CafeSuite |
| Windows Explorer |
0% |
1516 |
|
21.3 MB |
0:42 |
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE |
Program |
19:32:01 |
My Documents, Volume |
Microsoft Corporation : Microsoft? Windows? Operating System |
| Internet Explorer |
0% |
1160 |
|
19.0 MB |
0:01 |
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE |
Program |
22:17:50 from Windows Explorer |
Security Task Manager – Windows Internet Explorer |
Microsoft Corporation : Windows? Internet Explorer |
| PC Tools AntiVirus Client |
0% |
1720 |
1% |
12.7 MB |
0:04 |
C:\Program Files\PC Tools AntiVirus\PCTAV.exe |
Taskicon |
19:32:02 when Windows starts, Registry: Machine\Run |
E1DB6607, PC Tools AntiVirus |
PC Tools : PC Tools AntiVirus Client |
| igfxTray Module |
0% |
|
|
|
|
C:\WINDOWS\system32\igfxtray.exe |
Program |
when Windows starts, Registry: Machine\Run |
IgfxTray (not active) |
Intel Corporation : Intel(R) Common User Interface |
| Security Task Manager |
0% |
1124 |
8% |
13.8 MB |
0:19 |
C:\dell\Security Task Manager\taskman.exe |
Program |
22:15:24 |
Security Task Manager |
A. & M. Neuber Software : Security Task Manager |
|
Tags: easyInternetCafe, internet cafe, london, privacy, spyware
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November 14th, 2008 at 3:05 am
I never went to an Internet cafe before, but I know that it won’t be the safest place to go online. (There aren’t any Internet cafes around where I live.) Whenever I’m on vacation, I never check my email on the computer in the lobby. My sisters have no problem with checking their MySpace on it, though. I have a fear of keyloggers. I play it safe.