Internet Cafe No Longer Honours Privacy?

Roy Schestowitz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:56:05 +0000

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

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