McAfee security has become spyware

Stefan Mileschin · 20th March 2016, 15:05

McAfee software which comes bundled with some PCs seems to be converting itself to spyware to help serve up advertising and could be used as a geolocation tool.

Help Net Security wrote that seven laptops, the Lenovo Flex 3, Lenovo G50-80 (UK version), HP Envy, HP Stream x360 (Microsoft Signature Edition), HP Stream (UK version), Acer Aspire F15 (UK version), and Dell Inspiron 14 (Canadian version) were tested by the security research team of Duo Security.

Duo sniffed the traffic sent from and to them once they have been taken out of the box, plugged in, and connected to a network.

“Within the first few packets on all seven laptops, there were issues. It took awhile to figure them out, as much of the traffic was encrypted and one had to go by server hostname or calling program name, or by reverse-engineering the calling code to find out what was going on,” they pointed out.

http://www.techeye.net/news/mcafee-s...become-spyware

20th March 2016, 15:05	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 148,578	McAfee security has become spyware McAfee software which comes bundled with some PCs seems to be converting itself to spyware to help serve up advertising and could be used as a geolocation tool. Help Net Security wrote that seven laptops, the Lenovo Flex 3, Lenovo G50-80 (UK version), HP Envy, HP Stream x360 (Microsoft Signature Edition), HP Stream (UK version), Acer Aspire F15 (UK version), and Dell Inspiron 14 (Canadian version) were tested by the security research team of Duo Security. Duo sniffed the traffic sent from and to them once they have been taken out of the box, plugged in, and connected to a network. “Within the first few packets on all seven laptops, there were issues. It took awhile to figure them out, as much of the traffic was encrypted and one had to go by server hostname or calling program name, or by reverse-engineering the calling code to find out what was going on,” they pointed out. http://www.techeye.net/news/mcafee-s...become-spyware

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