Mice and Pointing Devices

[NoThanks2]

I wanted to use keybindings on my MXAir after a re-install of XP.

I downloaded the latest Setpoint (6.32 smart) from this site.

I carefully scanned the surprisingly small file with AVIRA. It was clean.

But... when I ran it, it promptly downloaded lots more stuff from who knows where, without me having the option of scanning it first.

I thought to myself, that this would be a good way to introduce viruses.

I ran a full system scan after that, and sure enough, my system was now infected with Caphaw D backdoor

I cleaned my system, uninstalled setpoint, did various restarts to make that hppen, and reinstalled the old pre-rebuild 4.80 driver which I fortunately had lying around.

It's very rude to give people a fake driver file, which is really a downloader. I don't know whether logitech intended whatever the 6.32 "smart" exe downloaded to be a backdoor, or whether their site was compromised, but the fact that they even went the route of not letting users scan the file for viruses before installing, is a bit of bad faith already.

BeVERYware.

[MichaelKenward Logi Guru]

You don't seem to understand the point of the "smart" downloader.

Like many other software houses, including Microsoft, Logitech offers the option to download the "smartdownloader". I always reject this option and go instead for the full package.

If you read the downloads pages for many products you will read this:

Tip: If you're having installation difficulties with the Smart Installer package, try downloading the Full installer package (32-bit / 64-bit). This usually does the trick.

Unfortunately, it isn't always possible to get this from the product page, which is why I like to keep my eye on the ftp site:

ftp://ftp.logitech.com//pub/techsupport/mouse

If you look there you will see that the full package is 10 times larger than the "smart" version.

I find it amusing that someone worried about their computer's security owns up to using Windows XP.